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  • The Talented Miss Highsmith

    The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

    de Joan Schenkar ...
    A biography of the novelist who created Tom Ripley that is "both dazzling and definitive . . . as original as its contemptible, miserable, irresistible subject" ( Los Angeles Times).A New York Times Notable Book * A Lambda Literary Award Winner * An Edgar Award Nominee * An Agatha Award Nominee * A Publishers Weekly Pick of the WeekPatricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks

    The New York Years, 1941-1950

    de Patricia Highsmith ...
    Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmith’s transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume is also “one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts . . . about being young and alive in New York City” (Dwight Garner,—New York Times).Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Patricia Highsmith

    Selected Novels and Short Stories

    de Patricia Highsmith ...
    Narrado por Bronson Pinchot, Cassandra Campbell ...

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    27 hora 17 minutos

    The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith’s classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most ... Leer más

    $34.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Daily Rituals

    How Artists Work

    de Mason Currey ...
    More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do.Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Ernest Hemingway on Writing

    Edición de Larry W. Phillips ...
    A collection of reflections on writing and the nature of the writer from one the greatest American writers of the 20th century.Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing—that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.”Despite this belief, by the end of his ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

    de Robert Byrne ...
    Drawing from diverse personages from Goethe to Churchill to Woody Allen, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said is a witty wise quotation collection that deserves a special place on every humor lover's bookshelf.These unique, funny, and outrageous quotations, previously published in four separate volumes, are now gathered together in a seemingly limitless trove of pithy and often irreverent one ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks

    1941-1995

    de Patricia Highsmith ...
    New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2021The Times (of London) • Best Books of the YearExcerpted in The New YorkerProfiled in The Los Angeles TimesPublishing for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries “offer the most complete picture ever published” of the canonical author (New York Times).Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patrici... ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Avid Reader

    A Life

    de Robert Gottlieb ...
    Winner of the Anne M. Sperber PrizeA spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time.After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

    True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

    de Tom Nissley ...
    A witty and addictively readable day-by-day literary companion.At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, "Is it ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Too Brief a Treat

    The Letters of Truman Capote

    de Truman Capote ...
    Series series Vintage International
    The private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled here for the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke, provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most colorful and fascinating literary figures.Capote was an inveterate letter writer. He wrote letters as he spoke: emphatically, spontaneously, and passionately. Spanning more than four decades, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers

    Edición de Graydon Carter ...
    A collection of beloved authors on beloved writers, including Martin Amis on Saul Bellow, Truman Capote on Willa Cather, and Salman Rushdie on Christopher Hitchens, as featured in Vanity FairWhat did Christopher Hitchens think of Dorothy Parker? How did meeting e.e. cummings change the young Susan Cheever? What does Martin Amis have to say about how Saul Bellow’s love life influenced his writing? ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • A Life in Letters

    de F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    A vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life.In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America's most enduring and elegant authors. A Life in Letters is the most comprehensive volume of Fitzgerald's letters -- many of ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD