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...Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith’s amoral conman, should be persuasive in any guise....
...Gore agrees: “Yeah, David is a great front man. He really works his craft on stage – he knows how to get the crowd going....
...change in the air My friend Philip Roth was a misogynist And a bully, so says his biographer Mike Nichols was addicted to crack cocaine And money — a biographer again — Overleaf, I read that Patricia Highsmith...
...Nobody did menace quite like Patricia Highsmith, whose centenary has recently been celebrated....
...In this essay, Andrew Wilson, author of books on Patricia Highsmith and Sylvia Plath, explores biographies’ value. (Boundless) I love Prince....
...The young visual medium quickly adopted this most visual of literary themes, and the doppelgänger film has become a significant sub-genre, especially if you include stories of twins (David Cronenberg’s Dead...
...The fact that the play is based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel rather than on Hitchcock’s film gave Huston more of a free hand and the part is certainly a radical departure from Boardwalk’s Harrow....
...Other contributors included William Trevor, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, Eric Newby, Harry Enfield and, rather marvellously, Barbara Cartland....
...Voiceover artist David Menkin provides the unobtrusive narration with an American accent that is hard to situate and feels just right for Highsmith’s sparsely powerful prose....
...From a country rent by violence came Lovers and Strangers (Bloomsbury £14.99), two novellas about betrayal, salvaged love and forgiveness by Israel’s David Grossman....
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