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…
One diary entry reads ... In The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith brought to life one of the most enduring antiheroes ...
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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 ... almost made me love her when I saw her,” she wrote in her diary. “Murder is a kind of making love, a kind of possessing.” ...