+ Up Front: Jeanette Winterson

“Obsession is focused but not linear,” Winterson says, “and this biography is the same; it curls and twists around the inner and other events of Highsmith’s life, so that nothing is too neat. Highsmith liked to think she was orderly when in fact she lived in emotional chaos; her choices were really manifestations of desires she could never control — or even understand.”

extract via New York Times

Winterson, a favourite author of mine.

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