Review

In Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires, Richard Bradford casts a different, darker shadow on the life of Patricia Highsmith

By Colin Steele
April 24 2021 - 12:00am
Patricia Highsmith - dangerous to know. Picture: Getty Images
Patricia Highsmith - dangerous to know. Picture: Getty Images
  • Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith, by Richard Bradford. Bloomsbury, $45.75.

Great writers are often not very nice people. Think Charles Dickens, Jean-Paul Sartre, Philip Roth and Philip Larkin, while Lady Caroline Lamb famously labelled Byron, ''mad, bad and dangerous to know''.

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