- Fiction, Criminals, Criminals in fiction, Tom Ripley (Fictitious character)
Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion, serial murder—Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game.
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Classical in form, cool, bleak and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Patricia Highsmith
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- Presses pocket, Isis, Heinemann
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9782266018814
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Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene. Her first novel, *Strangers on a Train*, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the Alfred Hitchcock film r
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