The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game (Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover

Highsmith, Patricia

 
9781857152623: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game (Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 185715262X ISBN 13: 9781857152623
Verlag: Everyman, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre – The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, and Ripley's Game – appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith’s hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing – not even murder – to accomplish his goals. In achieving the opulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself to be a master of illusion and manipulation and a disturbingly sympathetic combination of genius and psychopath. Sent on a mission to Italy to coax an irresponsible young playboy back to his wealthy father in America, Ripley finds himself so fond of the young man that he sets out to be like him – exactly like him. The precarious charade that ensues is the first step to a life of elegance and ease – and perpetual danger. As she leads us through the mesmerizing tangle of Ripley’s deadly and sinister games, Highsmith turns the mystery genre inside out and takes us into the mind of a man utterly indifferent to evil.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Everyman
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
185715262X
ISBN 13 
9781857152623
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
904
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