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omg this sounds amazing

Carol is one of my absolute favorite books of all time and graphic novels are one of my favorite genres so I had high hopes going into this. The art was gorgeous, the story well told, and honestly I had no idea Patricia Highsmith was an awful person but I still deeply enjoyed her story, especially the way it was told here. I highly recommend.

I pre-ordered this graphic novel on a whim, though I follow Templer on Twitter and love their Cosmoknights series. After months of being teased with images, I am SO HAPPY I bought it, and I stayed up far too late reading it through. Templer has such a rich and humorous style, and I love the balance between what is said and what isn't. To that end, I really appreciated Ellis's author's note at the beginning that gave me a better idea of who Highsmith was beyond being the author of The Price of Sa...

A truly fascinating portrait of Patricia Highsmith: a misenthropic, abrasive, and unlikeable figure. She was also one of the best suspense writers who ever lived, and in many ways both ahead of her time, and very much a product of her time. The artwork is beautiful, and the story is captivating.

THREE STARS: but really two-and-a-half; I don't think I'll read this again.This rating is hard to explain. It is not a two-and-a-half-star book, but I would say it's a two-and-a-half-star experience: like its creators were in such deep moral conflict over its creation, they got so turned around the forgot why they ended up here in the first place.Flung Out Of Space is a fictional-ish imagining of Patricia Highsmith's life and motivations in creating the lesbian classic The Price of Salt, or Caro...

Full disclosure: I won a free copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway.I feel vaguely guilty for going into this knowing so little about Patricia Highsmith. I'm sure there are fans of her work who would kill to get their hands on this book, and get it ahead of the publication date no less (which is one of many reasons why I don't include my home address in these reviews.) I know her mainly by reputation, and by having seen Hitchcock's film, Strangers On A Train. That's it. But graphic novels, t...

Ah, I love this graphic (auto)novel. Recently I read the Philip K. Dick graphic biography and found it tremendously lacking. It just seemed so not in the spirit of PKD. The focus was tawdry - Dick's affairs, his obsession with his dead sister, virtually nothing about the tremendously interesting fiction he wrote, how it related to his life. Now Highsmith had a tawdry life. She slept with her agent's wife, demolished several marriages - both straight and lesbian. But this account of her life isn'...

LOVED this and wanted more! Beautiful art and an intriguing look into Patricia Highsmith's life, with all its nuance. And there's a healthy amount of homage to the movie adaptation of Carol/The Price of Salt, which I obviously loved.

I have in the past couple years become a fan of Patricia Highsmith's work, though I, like many people, I suppose, encountered it first through Alfred Hitchcock's fine adaptation of her first novel, Strangers on a Train, and/or the film, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I will rectify this soon. but I have not yet read her The Price of Salt, which was initially published under a pseudonym and later published under her own name and with the title she preferred, Carol. It is a key book in the annals of les...

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Fascinating look at a the sordid life of an icon.

This is a book about Patricia Highsmith, writer of comics, novels that were adapted for film, and Carol (previously-titled The Price of Salt), the first lesbian novel with a happy ending. I'd heard of a few of the movies based on her works (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley) but didn't know anything else about her. And even though I knew that there was a time in which no queer love stories had happy endings, I didn't know when or how that changed. I enjoyed reading about Highsmith's

Wow, I LOVED this. A rich, complicated, and devastating story, deliciously free of sugarcoating. This is the sort of adult queer graphic fiction I’d love to see more of from mainstream presses.

I wanted to give this book a chance to impress me, I've read other works with Grace Ellis but always found her work lacking in areas and was hoping maybe this material would show a different side of her work.While I applaud the book for tackling Patricia I feel like it's a failure in a lot of regards in actually portraying her as a complicated person. For one the book never delves into some of her more racist beliefs and only has rather mild comments about Jews. Most of the book she is giving sa...

Sharp, painful, and at times surprisingly sympathetic, Grace Ellis's biographical graphic novel, "Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith" will stick with you long after you return the book to your personal book shelf, or the drop box of your local library. I have yet to see the 2015 film adaptation of Highsmith's, "Carol", but even with the barest of knowledge of the book and film's premise I could easily spot where Highsmith's personal life and the lives o...

Complicated portrait of an equally complicated writer. I appreciated that the comic's portrayal of Patricia Highsmith is sympathetic without being redemptive. While there are moments in which Pat's rude personality comes off as charming (much like her own fictional protagonists), Ellis does a good job of depicting Pat's antisemitism and misogyny as genuine flaws rather than quirks. The conversion therapy scenes were gut-wrenching in subtle ways I'm still struggling to process.Otherwise: beautifu...

I first read The Price of Salt in 2015. When the movie came out, I was disappointed by the lack of what I could only describe as obsessive energy. I once wrote while reviewing Edith's Diary, “[Patricia Highsmith] seems to thrive on testing the limits, on taking that one wobbly step over the line long ago burnt in the sand by the rules, the norms”. I couldn't find that tension and I couldn't explain why it was such a big deal for me.Flung Out of Space just gave me some clarity. The reason I miss...

When you see either of Grace Ellis or Hannah Templer credited on a book, you expect something good. When both of them work on the same book? Yeah I was expecting something great. And... it was great! I would not call myself a fan of Patricia Highsmith's work. I had never heard of her before this - which is obviously a massive cultural oversight on my pat. But I love me some biographies, and I love stories about writing stories. So this was a great experience for me.I was sold from the get-go whe...

I feel like reading the forward is vital this story, as it addresses the complex nature of Patricia Highsmith as a figure in queer history a bit more than the actual comic is able to. I believe that including her anti-Semitism was necessary but without the forward it seems like random comments thrown around out of place. No matter how horrible of a person she was, Carol is an extremely important book. I think this graphic novel "biography" does about the best job anyone could do with Patricia Hi...