Edith's Diary
A Virago Modern Classic
$25.73
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2015
Summary
Edith Howland’s diary is her most precious possession, and as she is moving house she is making sure it’s safe. A suburban housewife in fifties America, she is moving to Brunswick with her husband Brett and her beloved son, Cliffie, to start a new life for them all. She is optimistic, but most of all she has high hopes for her new venture with Brett, a local newspaper, the Brunswick Corner Bugle. Life seems full of promise, and indeed, to read her diary, filled with her most intimate feelings and revelations, you would never think otherwise. Strange, then, that reality is so dangerously different …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349004556 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349004552 |
| Author: | Patricia Highsmith, Denise Mina |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 126mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing ….bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night - The New Yorker
Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing ….bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night - The New YorkerPatricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith ‘the poet of apprehension’, saying that she ‘created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger’. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.
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