The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all. The Boy Who Followed Ripley is followed by Ripley Under Water.

More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior -- John Freeman Pittsburgh Gazette

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six, where she attended the Julia Richman High School and Barnard College. 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, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger' and The Times named her no.1 in their list of the greatest ever crime writers. Patricia 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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ISBN 13	9780349006253
ISBN 10	0349006253
Title	The Boy Who Followed Ripley
Author	Patricia Highsmith
Series	Ripley Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2015-06-04
Number of pages	368
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