Twisted brilliance: Patricia Highsmith at 100
Sat 9 Jan 2021 04.00 EST Last modified on Mon 8 Mar 2021 06.53 EST There has always been something fundamentally difficult about Patricia Highsmith. And not difficult in the way that most people mean it: ironic, quirky, feminist (“Well-behaved women rarely make history”, and so on). I mean truly, legitimately difficult; a well of darkness with no discernible bottom. Which is not to say that she wasn’t, in her own way, endearing. She was, after all, a genius, a bona fide eccentric. She loved animals, particularly snails, which she kept by the hundred as pets and took to parties clinging ...
Source: theguardian.com