Patricia Highsmith’s classic thriller mixes glamour, betrayal, self-invention and murder. What’s not to love? Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-26 17:08:57 UTC ]
In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 thriller about wealth, status, obsession and murder. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-02 09:03:17 UTC ]
Author of The Horse Whisperer, the 1995 book that was turned into a popular film, starring and directed by Robert RedfordNicholas Evans, who has died aged 72 after a heart attack, was the unlikely author of the bestselling novel The Horse Whisperer (1995), which became a Robert Redford film.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-08-16 17:09:25 UTC ]
Fake identities serve as fascinatingly persistent plot devices because we all, at some point, desire to reinvent ourselves in pursuit of existential liberation or deception, curiosity or fantasy or survival. In one of the most canonical examples of this genre, Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-03-15 08:49:43 UTC ]
“Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires” argues that the “Strangers on a Train” author deliberately courted emotional violence in her life to fuel her fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-20 13:00:00 UTC ]
Several UK publishers have their eyes on the UK rights to novelist Patricia Highsmith’s extensive diaries, which will for the first time tell of the author’s “heart-break, difficult choices, hard-won professional triumphs and a furiously fast-paced social life”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-31 19:04:45 UTC ]