Her biographer Andrew Wilson
believes that the therapy may have set her back psychologically, while making it easier for her to write her lesbian novel, The Price of Salt.
Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003.
149
She continued the therapy...
Intertextuality and Influence
Rose Macaulay
Critic A. N. Wilson
has suggested that this novel exerted a significant influence on Woolf
's Orlando.
Lefanu, Sarah. Rose Macaulay. Virago, 2003.
338
Literary responses
Jeanette Winterson
According to critic Peter Parker
, Winterson published the book against the advice of her friends. It received bad reviews, and she apparently tried unsuccessfully to prevent its reissue later. However, as Fiammetta Rocco
writes...
Literary responses
Zadie Smith
Reviewers were bowled over. A. N. Wilson
in the Daily Telegraph was fairly representative when he wrote: from the very first chapter, I knew myself in the presence of a truly remarkable novelist—someone who was...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Jenkins
A. N. Wilson
, listing for the TLS his choice of International Books of the Year 2004, named this as the best English memoir I have read for years. . . . As you...
Literary responses
Deborah Moggach
Reviewing editors were apparently sanguine enough to issue this new novel for review to up-and-coming male writers. Blake Morrison
welcomed it as funny, affectionate, and unpretentious, while A. N. Wilson
implied that it had no...
Literary responses
Iris Murdoch
A. N. Wilson
, reviewing the novel in The Spectator, found it warm, humorous, and difficult to put down. A New York Times Book Review critic felt the author made the design more complicated...
Reception
Anita Brookner
A. N. Wilson
, reviewing Family and Friends for the TLS the day after publication, judged it AB
'sbest novel to date.
qtd. in
Skinner, John. The Fictions of Anita Brookner: Illusions of Romance. Macmillan, 1992.
92
Reception
Patricia Highsmith
The appearance of a biography by Andrew Wilson
in June 2003 drew a remarkable panegyric on PH
from Slavoj žiŽek
: for him, he wrote, her name designates a sacred territory; his judgement of her...
Textual Production
Anita Brookner
AB
published a new novel, The Bay of Angels, whose dust-jacket features A. N. Wilson
likening Brookner to Chekhov
.
PH
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...
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Texts
Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003.
Wilson, Andrew Norman. “Gaddafi’s Folly”. London Review of Books, pp. 19-20.
Wilson, Andrew Norman. “Personality Rights”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 7-10.