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The talented Mr. Ripley / Patricia Highsmith

Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995 (author).

Summary:

"Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath. Here, in this first Ripley novel, we are introduced to suave Tom Ripley, a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Tom Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley's fascination with Dickie's debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie's ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Amabassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for murder and self-invention is chronicled in four subsequent Ripley novels."--Back cover

Record details

ISBN: 9780393332148
ISBN: 0393332144
Physical Description: 273 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: Norton edition
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008
Copyright: ℗♭1993

Content descriptions

Original Version Note:	Originally published: New York : Coward-McCann, Inc., 1955
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:	Gary C. Hoppenstand Adventure Fiction Collection