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…
In 1927, Patricia was whisked away to New York to live with her mother and stepfather, Stanley Highsmith. The experience of ...
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‘Murder is a kind of making love’: The strange life of Patricia Highsmith, the author behind The Talented Mr Ripley
No one wrote antiheroes like Patricia Highsmith. Take Tom Ripley, the “suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral” conman protagonist of her 1955 thriller The Talented Mr Ripley, who lies, cheats ...
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Ripley: what to expect from the new Netflix series starring Andrew Scott
Almost 70 years after "The Talented Mr Ripley" by novelist and short-story writer Patricia Highsmith was published ... scraping by" in early 1960s New York. A wealthy man pays him to go to ...