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The Talented Mr. Ripley de Patricia Highsmith

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Autor Patricia Highsmith Spus de Kevin Kenerly
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers.

In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal, but he grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante.

A dark reworking of Henry James's "The Ambassadors," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" immortalized in the 1998 film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gywneth Paltrow is an unforgettable introduction to this debonair confidence man, whose talent for self-invention and calculated murder is chronicled in four subsequent novels."

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ISBN-13: 9781522642824
ISBN-10: 152264282X
Dimensiuni: 135 x 170 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: AUDIBLE STUDIOS ON BRILLIANCE

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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.

Notă biografică

Patricia Highsmith (1921 – 1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in New York. She was educated at the Julia Richmond High School in Manhattan and then at Columbia University, where she earned her B.A. in 1942. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), tells the story of a tennis player and a psychotic who meet on a train and agree to swap murders. The terrifying tale caught the attention of director Alfred Hitchcock, who, with Raymond Chandler, filmed it in 1951. Both the book and the resulting movie are considered to be classics of the crime genre. Highsmith’s subsequent novels, particularly five featuring the dashing forger/murderer Tom Ripley, have been vastly popular and critically acclaimed. In 1957 Highsmith won the coveted French Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere and in 1964 was awarded the Silver Dagger by the British Crime Writers Association. A reclusive person, Highsmith spent much of her life alone. She moved permanently to Europe in 1963 and spent her final years in an isolated house near Locarno on the Swiss-Italian border. Upon her death, Highsmith left three million dollars of her estate to Yaddo, the artist community in upstate New York.

Recenzii

“Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso a draftsman.”
—CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

“One of our greatest modernist writers.”
—Gore Vidal

“Highsmith's dark and sometimes savage humor, and the intelligence that informs her precise and hard-edged prose, puts one in mind of Jonathan Swift and Evelyn Waugh.”
—NEWSDAY

“[Highsmith] has created a world of her own-a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger.”
—Graham Greene

“Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.”
—THE NEW YORKER

“For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith.”
—TIME