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The crime writer : a novel

Dawson, Jill, author

Overview

In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London. Unfortunately it soon becomes clear that all her demons have come with her. Prowlers, sexual obsessives, frauds, imposters, suicides and murderers: the tropes of her fictions clamour for her attention, rudely intruding on her peaceful Suffolk retreat. After the arrival of Ginny, an enigmatic young journalist bent on interviewing her, events take a catastrophic turn. Except, as always in Highsmith's troubled life, matters are not quite as they first appear ... Masterfully recreating Highsmith's much exercised fantasies of murder and madness, Jill Dawson probes the darkest reaches of the imagination in this novel - at once a brilliant portrait of a writer and an atmospheric, emotionally charged, riveting tale.

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Subject: Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995 Fiction. / Women authors, American Fiction. / Americans England Fiction. / Adultery Fiction. / Nineteen sixties Fiction. / Suffolk (England) Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780062669582, 0062669583

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6054.A923 C75 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE