The Talented Miss Highsmith (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
—Caroline Besterman, in conversation with the author I don’t know why I was very fond of Pat, I don’t exactly know why. I was under a spell, like a bird before a snake. —Marion Aboudaram, in conversation with the author Her sexual life was really almost nonexistent. It’s not a good premise for a book. —Barbara Roett, in conversation with the author The way your head tipped back when you reached to drop a cigarette’s ashes, the way your hair smelled, of Russian leather, at the exact center above your forehead, the way your voice sounded when your head was light against mine and I embraced you…oh bed was always the unbelievable, the unimaginable, the best. —Patricia Highsmith, 1948 In the Christmas season of 1948 the winter weather in Manhattan was freakishly warm; the warmest ever recorded by the New York Weather Bureau. It wasn’t until mid-December that the first major snowstorms blanketed the city and quickly turned to municipal slush under a day of heavy rains.1 Pat Highsmith—perhaps it was the unseasonable heat—was alight with one of her special “holiday feelings.”
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