Patricia Highsmith’s life was filled with more eccentric, disturbing brilliance than most readers can normally handle; and so the chief attraction of this third biography in 18 years (released to commemorate her 100th birthday) may be its brevity.
From the time Highsmith was born (after a failed abortion attempt by her parents), her story starts off dark and then gets much, much darker.
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