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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,’ or the best treatment of the Patricia Highsmith classic that delves into the cursed human condition
Steven Zaillian has created a more-than-brilliant, profound and post-canonical adaptation of the story of the villain who reinvented the very concept of the villain ...