![]() I have not myself yet read The Price of Salt. I found this thanks to the Bitches on Comics podcast and was pleasantly surprised that my library had a copy. Highsmith’s life imitated her art with results as devastating as the plot twists that brought her fame and fortune. It’s a comic about what it was like to write comics in the 1950s, but also about what it means to be a writer at any time in history, struggling to find your voice.Īuthor Grace Ellis contextualizes Patricia Highsmith as both an unintentional queer icon and a figure whose problematic views and noted anti-Semitism have cemented her controversial legacy. ![]() This is not just the story behind a classic queer book, but of a queer artist who was deeply flawed. ![]() 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. ![]() Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. ![]()
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