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The talented Mr. Ripley
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, Di...
| Main Author: | Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
2008.
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| Edition: | Norton ed. |
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| Summary: |
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 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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| Physical Description: |
273 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780393332148 (pbk.) 0393332144 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: |
(Publisher Provided) |