Patricia Highsmith in Podcasts
personAmerican author and creator of the novel Carol, which was adapted into a film starring Cate Blanchett.
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Have you read the books of Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, The Two Faces of January, The Talented Mr Ripley?
I mean, Highsmith in her interview said she didn't admire him, but I think that was completely – you know, she said that really because she was –
Now, Joanna, she takes us, Patricia Highsmith takes us into the mind of this man who, as Michael said, he's a bit of a grifter and there are a whole lot of class issues there.
And the way Patricia Highsmith gets into the mind of Tom is what really got me into this story.
Tom Ripley is a social climber, a con man and a con artist who, and even Patricia Highsmith admitted, you know, the book, the premise of the book is based upon a couple of sort of outrageous coincidences in terms of he basically gets hired by Dickie Greenleaf's very rich father to go to Europe, to go to Italy and to try to encourage Dickie Greenleaf to return to America because his mother is unwell and
And those moments, I sort of, my frustration bubbles up because I think, oh, there she is, you know, there's the real Highsmith.
But where I get really interested is where it moves towards what I would describe as the real Patricia Highsmith.
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