Sitting in the second-floor study of her stone farmhouse in the village of Moncourt, France, her body hunched in front of her scrolled, roll-top desk like a snail confronting its shell, the fifty-one-year-old Patricia Highsmith picked up her favorite Parker fountain pen on a summer’s day in 1972 and confided her feelings about families to her notebook: One situation—one alone, could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness. —Biographer Joan Schenkar on becoming partners in crime with America’s great expatriate noir novelist Patricia Highsmith. (via theparisreview:)
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Sitting in the second-floor study of her stone farmhouse in the village of Moncourt, France, her body hunched in front of her scrolled, roll-top desk like a snail confronting its shell, the fifty-one-year-old Patricia Highsmith picked up her favorite Parker fountain pen on a summer’s day in 1972 and confided her feelings about families to her notebook:

One situation—one alone, could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

—Biographer Joan Schenkar on becoming partners in crime with America’s great expatriate noir novelist Patricia Highsmith.

(via theparisreview:)

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