Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires av Richard (University of Ulster UK) Bradford

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<b>¿My New Year¿s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle </b>¿<b> may they never give me peace¿ </b>¿ <b>Patricia Highsmith (New Year¿s Eve, 1947).</b>Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, <i>The Talented Mr Ripley </i>and <i>Strangers on a Train</i>, Patricia Highsmith is renowned as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books.The relationship between Highsmith¿s lesbianism, her fraught personality ¿ by parts self-destructive and malicious ¿ and her fiction, has been largely ignored by biographers in the past. As an openly homosexual writer, she wrote the seminal lesbian love story <i>Carol</i> for which she would be venerated, in modern times, as a radical exponent of the LGBTQ+ community.Alas, her status as an LGBTQ+ icon is undermined by her