Pressestimmen
'As original, as funny, as cleverly written and as moving as any novel I have read since I started reviewing' Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard 'With Edith's Diary, Patricia Highsmith has produced a masterpiece' Times Literary Supplement 'Highsmith probes to the very core of her heroine with a controlled ferocity and single-mindedness that illumines every page of her novel' The Times 'A work of extraordinary force and feeling ... her strongest, her most imaginative and by far her most substantial novel' New Yorker
Kurzbeschreibung
Eine Mutter notiert in ihrem Tagebuch, was sie bewegt: Ihr Ehemann trägt sie auf Händen, Sohn Cliffie brilliert an der Elite-Universität Princeton; die Mädchen und die Firmen reißen sich um ihn. Edith selbst macht Karriere als Journalistin. Das ist die Welt, die sie gerne hätte. Doch was Edith Howland in ihrem Tagebuch notiert, sind Tagträume, ist eine Wunschwelt . . .
Synopsis
Edith Howland's diary is her most precious possession, and as she is moving house she is making sure it's safe. A suburban housewife in fifties America, she is moving to Brunswick with her husband Brett and her beloved son, Cliffie, to start a new life for them all. She is optimistic, but she has high hopes most of all for her new venture with Brett, a local newspaper, the Brunswick Corner Bugle. Life seems full of promise, and indeed, to read her diary, filled with her most intimate feelings and revelations, you would never think otherwise. Strange then, that reality is so dangerously different
Über den Autor
Patricia Highsmith (geboren am 19.1.1921, Fort Worth/Texas, gestorben 4.2.1995, Locarno, begraben in Tegna/Tessin) wuchs in Texas und New York auf. Studium der Literatur und Zoologie. Erste Kurzgeschichten an der Highschool, erster Lebensunterhalt als Comictexterin, erster Welterfolg 1950 mit ihrem Romanerstling "Zwei Fremde im Zug", dessen Verfilmung durch Alfred Hitchcock sie über Nacht weltberühmt machte.
