Inside the life of the 'unlovable and unloving' Patricia Highsmith: Author of The Talented Mr Ripley was dubbed cruel and 'relentlessly ugly', hated men and said th…
But, with admirable honesty, he added: 'But her books... brilliant.' In The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith brought to ...
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‘Murder is a kind of making love’: The strange life of Patricia Highsmith, the author behind The Talented Mr Ripley
“Patricia Highsmith was Tom Ripley without the charm ... Three decades on, her literary status has never been stronger: her books are rightly acknowledged as the pinnacle of suspense writing ...
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Book review: The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
Published by St. Martin’s Press, 704 pp, $48, hardcover In The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, biographer Joan Schenkar offers a remarkably ...
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The Essential Patricia Highsmith
Known for her psychopathic antiheroes and novels such as “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “The Price of Salt,” Highsmith was a tangle of contradictions. Where should I begin if I’m totally ...
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Juliet Stevenson Joins Helen Mirren In Anton Corbijn’s Patricia Highsmith Thriller ‘Switzerland’
EXCLUSIVE: Juliet Stevenson has boarded Anton Corbijn’s thriller Switzerland starring Helen Mirren as crime novelist Patricia Highsmith as shooting gets underway in Rome, sources close to the ...
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Ripley: what to expect from the new Netflix series starring Andrew Scott
Between 1955 and 1991 Patricia Highsmith wrote five psychological thrillers ... The 2024 Netflix series is based on the first book, in which the eponymous Ripley is a "grifter scraping by" in ...