Resultados para "Anna" en Biografías y memorias

Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks posthumously discovered behind Highsmith’s linens and culled from more than 8,000 pages by her devoted editor, Anna von Planta—traces the mesmerizing double-life of an artist who “[worked] like mad to be something”.

This book is a transition from a sad, lonely, bullied existence to becoming an adult and still having to live with these same challenges. It is about having an overwhelming desire to experience sex and love and the emotional toll it takes. It captures the struggles and final acceptance of a life where love is sought, but the definition of what is truly found is inspirational.

Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest. The indisputable “queen...