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Patricia Highsmith in Podcasts

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American author and creator of the novel Carol, which was adapted into a film starring Cate Blanchett.

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The Bookshelf
Podcast Extra: Patricia Highsmith's biographer answers your questions

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?

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The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

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 –

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The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

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.

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The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

And the way Patricia Highsmith gets into the mind of Tom is what really got me into this story.

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The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

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

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The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

And those moments, I sort of, my frustration bubbles up because I think, oh, there she is, you know, there's the real Highsmith.

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The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith

But where I get really interested is where it moves towards what I would describe as the real Patricia Highsmith.