<B>Now in paperback, the fictionalized account of infamous author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing and obsession that would inspire her groundbreaking work of queer fiction, <I>The Price of Salt</I></B><BR/><BR/><I>Flung Out of Space </I>is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel <I>The Price of Salt</I> and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith<I>. </I>Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith’s eyes—reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece of queer literature. <I>Flung Out of Space</I> opens with Pat begrudgingly writing low-brow comics. A drinker, a smoker, and a hater of life, Pat knows she can do better. Her brain churns with images of the great novel she could and should be writing, what will eventually be <I>Strangers on a Train</I>, which would later be adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock i