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A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith. "Flung Out of Space" is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, "The Price of Salt," and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes -- reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece of queer literature. This story opens with Pat begrudgingly writing low-brow comics. A drinker, a smoker, and a hater of life, Pat knows she can do better. Her brain churns with images of the great novel she could and should be writing -- what will eventually be "Strangers on a Train" -- which would later be adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. At the same time, Pat, a lesbian consumed with self-loathing, is in and out of conversion therapy, leaving a trail of sexual conquests and broken hearts in her wake. However, one of those very affairs and a chance encounter in a department store give Pat the idea for her soon-to-be beloved tale of homosexual love that was the first of its kind -- it gave the lesbian protagonists a happy ending. This is not just the story behind a classic queer book, but of a queer artist who was deeply flawed. It's a comic about what it was like to write comics in the 1950s, but also about what it means to be a writer at any time in history, struggling to find your voice. Author Grace Ellis contextualizes Patricia Highsmith as both an unintentional queer icon and a figure whose problematic views and noted anti-Semitism have cemented her controversial legacy. Highsmith's life imitated her art with results as devastating as the plot twists that brought her fame and fortune. -- jacket
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monografia Rebiun38439069 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun38439069 m o d cr#cz#---auuuu 211220s2022 nyua ob6 000 0deng d 9781683359111 1683359119 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ TXG OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO PX0 YDX OCLCO IH9 GO9 OCLCO NUI CNCAR GZM PAU CDX NMP JPL WAU 813/.54 23 741.5 CGN009000 CGN010000 FIC018000 bisacsh Ellis, Grace author Flung out of space the indecent adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer 1st ed 2022 New York, NY Abrams ComicArts Surely 2022 New York, NY New York, NY Abrams ComicArts Surely 2021 1 online resource (439 pages) chiefly color illustrations 1 online resource (439 pages) Text txt rdacontent Still Image sti rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 199) Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Back Cover A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith. "Flung Out of Space" is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, "The Price of Salt," and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes -- reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece of queer literature. This story opens with Pat begrudgingly writing low-brow comics. A drinker, a smoker, and a hater of life, Pat knows she can do better. Her brain churns with images of the great novel she could and should be writing -- what will eventually be "Strangers on a Train" -- which would later be adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. At the same time, Pat, a lesbian consumed with self-loathing, is in and out of conversion therapy, leaving a trail of sexual conquests and broken hearts in her wake. However, one of those very affairs and a chance encounter in a department store give Pat the idea for her soon-to-be beloved tale of homosexual love that was the first of its kind -- it gave the lesbian protagonists a happy ending. This is not just the story behind a classic queer book, but of a queer artist who was deeply flawed. It's a comic about what it was like to write comics in the 1950s, but also about what it means to be a writer at any time in history, struggling to find your voice. Author Grace Ellis contextualizes Patricia Highsmith as both an unintentional queer icon and a figure whose problematic views and noted anti-Semitism have cemented her controversial legacy. Highsmith's life imitated her art with results as devastating as the plot twists that brought her fame and fortune. -- jacket Highsmith, Patricia 1921-1995)--) Comic books, strips, etc Women authors- Biography- Comic books, strips, etc Lesbians- Biography- Comic books, strips, etc Lesbian authors- Biography- Comic books, strips, etc Authors, American- 20th century- Biography- Comic books, strips, etc Biographical comics. Queer comics. Graphic novels. Templer, Hannah artist 1-4197-4433-X