Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Charm is the perfect disguise

Tom Ripley is drifting through life in 1950s New York, a young man with quick wits, no prospects and a talent for imitation. When he’s sent to Italy to persuade a wealthy heir, Dickie Greenleaf, to return home, the trip feels like deliverance: sunlit villas, boats on the bay, and friendship with the kind of people who barely notice men like him.

But fascination becomes fixation. As Tom sinks further into Dickie’s world, he begins to see another version of himself reflected there: richer, freer, adored. Ripley soon discovers just how easy it is to erase one life and step into another.

‘The No. 1 Greatest Crime Writer’ The Times
‘Ripley … is a genuinely original creation’ Daily Telegraph

Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation * Daily Telegraph *
As haunting and harrowing a study of a schizophrenic murder as paper will bearA glittering addition to the meagre ranks of people who make books that you really can't put down * Sunday Times *
Precisely plotted, stylishly written and kept alert by an icy wit. Streets ahead of the conventional thriller: a cool little classic of its kind * Evening Standard *
An outstanding thriller which has deservedly become a classic * Spectator *
Beautifully escapist, utterly thrilling * Healthy, *Summer Reads of 2021* *

Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to new York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.

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ISBN 13	9781529940886
ISBN 10	1529940885
Title	Ripley
Author	Patricia Highsmith
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2024-04-04
Number of pages	272
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