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As Edith’s life turns sour, her diary entries only grow brighter. While her life plunges into chaos’her husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their delinquent son and his senile uncle”a tale of success and happiness blooms in her notebook. As The New York Times Book Review wrote, “Edith’s fall takes the form of an ...
Edith's diary by Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995, author. Publication date 2015 Publisher London : Virago Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled
Posters. When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording details of an imaginary, much more successful life where she has friends and grandchildren. However, this diversion soon grows unhealthy when she becomes slowly convinced that the fantasies are ...
21 ago 2018 · Originally published in 1977, Edith’s Diary is a masterpiece of psychological suspense, a harrowing and tautly written tale of an ordinary woman whose life is slipping out of control. The author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith is one of the most original voices in twentieth-century American fiction.
As Edith's life turns sour, she retreats into her writing; and while her life plunges into chaos, a disturbing tale of success and happiness blooms in her diary. She invents a happy life, and as she knits for imaginary grandchildren, the real world recedes further still, marking a descent into madness that may well be unstoppable.
7 mag 2015 · Highsmith probes to the very core of her heroine with a controlled ferocity and single-mindedness that illuminates every page of her novel.It is a masterly book, a haunting book, a book that lingers long in the memory and constantly disturbs and delights ― The Times Edith's Diary is certainly one of the saddest novels I ever read, but it is also one of the mere twenty or so that I would say ...
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15 giu 1977 · Edith's Diary is by no means an easy book. But like all of Patricia Highsmith's novels is a masterpiece of claustrophobic suspense. I read it almost 15 years ago when I was a college student in Caracas, and believe it or not this story of a woman trapped in her home with a son from hell was a cult following novel for my generation, as well as almost all of Highsmith work.
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