The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith

eBook - 2008

An American classic and the inspiration for the motion picture starring Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow. It's here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith's five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a "sissy." Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, 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, and Ripley begins a deadly game. &quo...t;Sinister and strangely alluring" (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the...

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Published
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Main Author
Patricia Highsmith
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size457 MB
ISBN9780393344721
Release Date7/30/2015
Kindle Book
ASINB007Q6XJGS
Release Date7/30/2015
OverDrive Read eBook
File Size457 MB
ISBN9780393344721
Release Date7/30/2015