Bibliograph

The talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

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The talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The talented Mr. Ripley

Oclc number

26158954

Responsibility statement

Patricia Highsmith

Summary

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

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