'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' - The Times
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times
'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph
Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over.
Ripley wants money, success and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his new-found happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.
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*One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World
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By:
Patricia Highsmith
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 196mm,
Width: 128mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 193g
ISBN: 9780099282877
ISBN 10: 0099282879
Series: A Ripley Novel
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 October 1999
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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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
Reviews for The Talented Mr Ripley
In The Talented Mr Ripley Highsmith introduced an amoral, vacuous and shapeshifting hero in Tom Ripley, a man in some ways reminiscent of Fitzgerald's Gatsby, who was destined to make return appearances in her later books. First published in 1955, it tells the tale of Ripley's all-expenses-paid escapade from a depressing New York where he is walking on the wrong side of the law, to a glamorous Italian Riviera, to persuade a rich ship-builder's son to return home. But instead of bringing Dickie back to his dying mother, Ripley turns schizophrenic murderer, and assumes Dickie's priveleged lifestyle for himself. A chilling account of a charming, coldblooded killer which has rightly become a classic. (Kirkus UK)
