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- Virago
- Little, Brown Audio
Narrator
David MenkinRuntime
10hr 8m
Vmc Designer Collection, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense
The Talented Mr Ripley is one of the most influential, groundbreaking crime novels ever written. This is the first novel in the Ripley series.
Tom Ripley is struggling to stay afloat, financially and socially, in 1950s New York. Having failed at several jobs, he is dabbling in small-time fraud and living on the charity of friends. One day, a chance encounter results in him travelling to Italy, supposedly to persuade Dickie Greenleaf, the playboy son of a shipping magnate, to come home. Dickie's charm and lifestyle prove irresistible to Ripley and he embarks on a path from which there is no going back . . .
The Talented Mr Ripley is the unforgettable introduction to this debonair anti-hero, whose talent for self-invention and calculated murder is further chronicled in four subsequent novels, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water.
Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.
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