The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Highsmith, Patricia
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W. W. Norton
Annotation: In order to convince his son to come home, Herbert Greenleaf, a rich shipbuilder, sends the suave con man Tom Ripley to Italy, but is unaware of his son's friend's criminal activities.
Genre: [Suspense fiction] [Mystery fiction]
 
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Catalog Number: #5302576
Format: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Copyright Date: 2008
Edition Date: 2008 Release Date: 06/01/08
Pages: 287 pages
ISBN: 0-393-33214-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-33214-8
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2007049426
Dimensions: 21 cm.
Subject Heading:
Ripley, Tom (Fictitious character). Fiction.
Serial murderers. Fiction.
Psychopaths. Fiction.
Criminals. Fiction.
Italy. Fiction.
Language: English
Reading Level: 9.0
Interest Level: 9-12

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath. Here, in the first Ripley novel, we are introduced to suave Tom Ripley, a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, 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. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors , The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for murder and self-invention is chronicled in four subsequent Ripley novels.

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