RIPLEY - RIPLEY 1
Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it.
Struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law , Ripley leaps at the chance to start afresh on a free trip to Europe. But when his new-found happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.
Now a major new Netflix series, The Talented Mr Ripley is the first in Highsmith's classic series featuring the character of Tom Ripley - fiction's most terrifying con-man.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to new York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.
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HIGHSMITH PATRICIA
Patricia Highsmith nació el 19 de enero de 1921 en Fort Worth, Texas, y fue criada principalmente por su abuela en Nueva York. Estudió literatura inglesa en Barnard College y comenzó a publicar relatos en revistas antes de dedicarse a la novela. Su debut fue Extraños en un tren en 1950, obra que Alfred Hitchcock adaptó al cine y que la lanzó a la fama. Creó al personaje Tom Ripley, protagonista de varias de sus novelas más reconocidas. Vivió en distintos países de Europa y mantuvo una vida privada reservada. Murió el 4 de febrero de 1995 en Locarno, Suiza.
