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The Crime Writer de Jill Dawson

The Crime Writer

Autor Jill Dawson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2017

Putem afirma că structura acestui roman este o oglindă deformată, o construcție narativă care estompează granițele dintre biografie și ficțiune, capturând esența uneia dintre cele mai enigmatice figuri ale literaturii secolului XX. Jill Dawson alege să nu scrie o simplă relatare cronologică, ci un thriller psihologic imersiv care o plasează pe Patricia Highsmith în centrul propriului său univers literar întunecat. Acțiunea se desfășoară în liniștea aparentă a satului Suffolk din anii '60, unde izolarea autoarei este perturbată de prezența unei tinere jurnaliste tenace și de vizita tensionată a amantei sale, Sam. Notăm cu interes felul în care Dawson recreează vocea interioară a lui Highsmith, transformând obsesia scriitoarei pentru psihologia crimei dintr-o curiozitate intelectuală într-o realitate palpabilă și periculoasă. Cititorul care a apreciat portretul documentat și nuanțat al personalității torturate din Beautiful Shadow de Andrew Wilson va găsi aici aceleași tensiuni psihologice — dar transpuse într-un context narativ unde faptele istorice devin motorul unui suspans de tip noir. The Crime Writer se înscrie în linia preocupărilor constante ale lui Jill Dawson pentru destine istorice complexe, amintind de abordarea din The Great Lover sau The Bewitching, unde realitatea este filtrată printr-o lentilă poetică și, uneori, neliniștitoare. Stilul este sobru și evocativ, reușind să surprindă acea „nebunie a iubirii” despre care Highsmith însăși scria, oferind o experiență de lectură ce se simte ca o incursiune directă în mintea unui autor care a definit genul suspansului modern.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062669582
ISBN-10: 0062669583
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este o recomandare esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă legătura fragilă dintre creator și operă. Dincolo de misterul literar, cititorul câștigă o perspectivă intimă asupra dualității lui Patricia Highsmith, pendulând între nevoia de singurătate și dorințele interzise. Este un omagiu stilistic adus „reginei suspansului”, oferind fanilor genului o poveste în care personajul principal devine victima propriei imaginații întunecate.

Despre autor

Jill Dawson este o scriitoare britanică de renume, a cărei operă explorează frecvent intersecția dintre istorie și psihologie. A fost nominalizată la premii prestigioase precum Orange Prize și Whitbread Novel Award pentru romane precum Fred and Edie sau Watch Me Disappear. Recunoscută pentru abilitatea de a da voce unor personaje istorice complexe, Dawson trăiește în Norfolk, unde își continuă activitatea literară, fiind și o eseistă apreciată în publicații precum The Guardian și The Times. În The Crime Writer, ea își demonstrează măiestria în a omagia stilul altor autori prin propriul filtru creativ.

Descriere scurtă

From acclaimed novelist Jill Dawson comes this imaginative psychological thriller—a dark and compelling snapshot into the life of Patricia Highsmith that immerses readers into the intoxicating, nightmarish psyche of this brilliant, complex author. 
When novelist Patricia Highsmith moves into a small cottage in Suffolk, England, in the mid-1960s, she’s seeking seclusion and time to write. There’s another reason for seeking privacy too—Pat is involved in a secret romance with Sam, a married woman living in London.
But even in this quaint village, Pat can’t escape the obligations of her success. A young reporter, Virginia “Ginny” Smythson-Balby, sets her sights on Pat for an article she’s writing. Ginny is both tenacious and oddly familiar, but Pat can’t quite place where she’s seen her before. Intent on unearthing details about Pat’s fascination with not just the subject of murder but the psychology of a murderer, Ginny constantly intrudes into the sanctuary Pat had hoped to create, much to her dismay.
As Pat observes, love is a kind of madness. And when Sam comes for a visit, tension between Pat and Sam’s husband escalates with deadly results. For so long she’s wondered what it would feel like to commit the ultimate transgression. Now she’s not just a chronicler of murder and violence, but a participant as she becomes a character from her own thrilling, disturbing novels. But just like her books, she discovers crime has consequences…dark, surprising, and inescapable.
Jill Dawson deftly explores the public and private life of one of the most intriguing writers of our time, blending fact and fiction in a novel as thrilling as Patricia Highsmith’s own work.

Recenzii

“If, as they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, this fictionalized account of author Patricia Highsmith’s 1964 sojourn in Sussex is high-grade flattery indeed… Fans of The Price of Salt (the basis for the 2015 film Carol) will savor this phantasmagoria.” — Library Journal
“Suspense novelist Patricia Highsmith finds herself caught in a real-life situation that seems to have sprung from the pages of one of her novels. It’s a clever conceit, plunging an author into a scenario right out of her own queasy-making fiction, and it’s adroitly handled, forcing Pat to live out her ideas of crime and guilt.” — Kirkus Reviews
“[A] dreamlike, high-tension novel...Dawson smoothly marries fact with fiction to capture the famously prickly Highsmith while astutely exploring love, obsession, and the myriad shades of darkness within us all.” — Publishers Weekly
“This novel is the real deal. Beautifully written and a must for all Highsmith fans.” — Phyllis Nagy, scriptwriter of the film Carol
“It’s brilliant.” — Paula Hawkins, Bestselling Author of The Girl on the Train
The Crime Writer represents an astonishing act of literary ventriloquism, easily on a par with The Master, Colm Tóibín’s fine novel about Henry James. — Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
“Ventriloquy is Dawson’s forte . . . this fascinating, skillfully constructed novel builds a convincing picture of Patricia Highsmith ” — Andrew Taylor, Spectator
“All great writers’ biographies are less interesting than their work, but Patricia Highsmith gave hers a run for its money...[The Crime Writer is]sharp and absorbing, with brilliant imaginative flights and a fine sensitivity to its subject’s thorny, wounded, uncanny mind.” — USA Today
“You do not need to be a passionate Highsmith fan to admire this beautifully written and elegant novel, but I think it will particularly appeal to those who have read her books and know something about her life; they should recognise many of the allusions and ideas.” — Jessica Mann Literary Review
“A beautifully crafted and utterly riveting blend of fact and fiction about a fascinating 20th-century figure.” — Carla McKay, Daily Mail
“Dawson has drawn a witty, creepy plot as well as a convincing character sketch of a woman all too easy to caricature.” — Jake Kerridge, The Daily Telegraph
“Dawson skillfully constructs a dark tale that Highsmith fans will love.” — Sunday Times
“A dark tale of madness and murder, of obsession and delusion, that’s worthy of Highsmith herself.” — Red Magazine
“[An] impeccable portrait . . . a hugely compelling read, jam-packed full of tensions and psychological insight, all beautifully observed.” — Sunday Express (London)
“An assured and visceral page-turner, as convincing as it is bold.” — Stephanie Cross Lady
“An intoxicating, shadowy narrative . . . [Dawson’s] version of events will delight Highsmith’s fans.” — Crime Scene magazine
“This novel is one wonderful long riff on Patricia Highsmith . . . Unsettling, sexy and gripping.” — Tim Pears
“Fantastically moody and appealingly unhinged — a piece of sophisticated literary ventriloquism that achieves a wonderful blurring of the lines between fact and fantasy.” — Sarah Waters, Guardian, Summer Reads

Notă biografică

Jill Dawson is the author of Trick of the Light, Magpie, Fred and Edie, which was short-listed for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize, Wild Boy, Watch Me Disappear, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize, The Great Lover, and Lucky Bunny. She has edited six anthologies of short stories and poetry, and has written for numerous UK publications, including The Guardian, The Times, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar. She lives in Norfolk with her husband and two sons.

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'Brilliant'
Paula Hawkins
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.