Tom Ripley is a charming sociopath who inspires both love and loathing in The Talented Mr. Ripley, the first of the five-book Ripliad series. Patricia Highsmith’s most notorious character, a nefarious ...
Who doesn’t want to be someone else from time to time? That question is at the heart of author Patricia Highsmith’s most famous character, the aloof Tom Ripley, “a liar, a forger, and an impersonator” ...
The character of Tom Ripley, luxury connoisseur and con man extraordinaire, appeared in five Patricia Highsmith novels, beginning in 1955 with “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” The book is his origin story, ...