{"product_id":"9781324092940","title":"Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eEssential 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,—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eStrangers on a Train\u003c\/em\u003e, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and before \u003cem\u003eThe Price of Salt\u003c\/em\u003e became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith? Focused on her formative years in Manhattan, this condensed edition of Highsmith’s monumental \u003cem\u003eDiaries and Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e reveals “Pat” at her most passionate and florescent. Beginning in 1941 at Barnard College and encompassing the Texas native’s adventurous twenties, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Years\u003c\/em\u003e intertwines scenes from her dizzying social life—rife with sleepless nights barhopping in the queer underground Greenwich Village scene, always juggling too many lovers—with an intimate self-portrait of a young artist who by day dispassionately wrote comics for a paycheck. Amid all the hangovers and the breakups, she read voraciously and honed her craft with verve. Laid bare in this perennial reader’s edition are the bold, hilarious, romantic, tragic, and maddeningly contradictory observations of one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal).","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370813231165,"sku":"9781324092940","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781324092940_p0.jpg?v=1771568404","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781324092940","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}