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The crime writer : a novel
- Title
- The crime writer : a novel / Jill Dawson.
- Author
- Dawson, Jill.
- Publication
- New York : HarperCollins, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-4843 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 246 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Romance fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-4843
- ISBN
- 9780062669582
- 0062669583
- OCLC
- 972392619
- Author
- Dawson, Jill.
- Title
- The crime writer : a novel / Jill Dawson.
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins, 2017.
- Edition
- First Harper Perennial paperback
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-4843