The Price of Dreams: Patricia Highsmith, the novel of her life
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A lesbian in an era when to be homosexual was to be reviled and discriminated against, and made to feel guilty and ashamed, Patricia Highsmith struggled with her sexual identity in this social context, and the book fruitfully explores how this might have contributed to her creative output.
The title is a reference to PH’s second novel The Price of Salt, a lesbian romance originally published under a pseudonym after it was rejected by the publisher of her first novel. It was not until 1990 that PH agreed to its reissue under her own name, with the new title Carol.
'The Price of Dreams has captured something essential about Patricia Highsmith - a unique but altogether plausible version, whose voice so echoes the voices the woman created throughout her writing life. This is just an astonishing work - a revelation.'
Dorothy Allison
Margherita Giacobino
Margherita Giacobino, born in 1952, lives in Turin. She is a writer,journalist and translator . She translated - among others - Emily Bronte, Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Allison, Audre Lorde. She made her debut in 1993 with the novel Un' Americana a Parigi written under the pseudonym of Elinor Rigby. !n 1996 she published Casalinghe All'Inferno, in 2007 L'Educazione Sentimentale Di C.B. and in 2010 L'Uovo Fuori Dal Cavagno. The Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter published in Italy in 2015 has already been translated into French and German. It is the first novel by Margherita Giacobino to be translated into English.
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