She was alone, and the previous day had asked a visiting friend not to stay. Her literary papers went by sale to the Swiss Literary Archives
at Berne, and the writers' retreat of Yaddo
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Patricia Highsmith
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shunned publicity and was extremely reticent about her private life. The movement of her career was away from suspense towards serious fiction dominated by irony and incongruity, with outbreaks of disturbing, unstylised violence. She...
