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
No one wrote antiheroes like Patricia ... the author would briefly take a very different path: writing a romance, with shades ...
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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 ...