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  Patricia Highsmith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Highsmith spent most of her life living in France and Switzerland, and was long widely appreciated in Europe while suffering relative obscurity in the United States.
Ripley was featured in a total of five novels, known to fans as the Ripliad, written between 1955 and 1991.
Highsmith died of leukemia in Locarno, Switzerland, at age 74 in 1995.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patricia_Highsmith   (677 words)

  
 Ripley's Game [2003] DVD at Shop Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The film is perhaps the only one that has really managed to capture the malevolent psychologically of the complex central character, while also effectively recreating the almost Hitchcockian nature of Patricia Highsmith's original series of books.
Patricia Highsmith's tour de force of eccentric crime fiction; known to initiates as The Ripliad, makes fertile ground for film-makers, [like The American Friend] with varying results.
Having read the entire series of books many years ago, I always felt that casting Matt Damon in the lead role for the first - The Talented Mr Ripley - was a dreadful mistake, being far too unsure and not nearly urbane enough.
www.shopireland.ie /dvd/reviews/B00009P9XX   (1834 words)

  
 Ripley's Game Article, Ripley'sGame Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ripley's Game is the third novel in Patricia Highsmith 's Ripley series (the Ripliad), written in 1974.
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www.anoca.org /adapted/ripliad/ripley_27s_game.html   (151 words)

  
 Thomas Ripley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For the English architect, see Thomas Ripley (architect).
Thomas Ripley is the infamous protagonist of the Ripliad by Patricia Highsmith, and hence protagonist in several films spawned from the novels.
A "suave, agreeable and utterly amoral" con artist who always gets away with his crimes, including murder, he is a classic example of an antihero, a character type featured in most of Highsmith's books.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Thomas-Ripley.htm   (513 words)

  
 The Boy Who Followed Ripley - Patricia Highsmith, Vintage, vhs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
If anything Ripley is more intelligent...not matter how close he comes he never gets caught.
Of the Ripliad 5 this novel offers the most interesting insight into the character.
It's not always about the plot; one would hope that Highsmith and her readers are not so one dimensional as to expect it to be so.
sale-for-you.co.uk /vhs/item/0099286599   (443 words)

  
 Ripley Under Water : Reviews, Prices, Deals
Even if you are paranoid, remember that someone may really be after you!
This final installment in the 5-novel 'Ripliad' sees the tables turned on Tom Ripley.
Living a quiet and comfortable life in Belle Ombre with Heloise and Madame Annette, Tom finds himself the victim of an obssessive American couple seemingly bent on exposing Tom's murder of Murchison six years previously.
www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/0747554056/Ripley_Under_Water.html   (497 words)

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