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Hardboiled Fiction Page to Screen
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Shakespeare-inspired Fiction
Swindlers, Con Artists, and Grifters
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Shakespeare-inspired Fiction
Swindlers, Con Artists, and Grifters
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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.
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath. Here, in this 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"...
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Ripley novels volume 5
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
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The fifth of Highsmith's "Ripley" novels finds the hero living the good life in the French countryside. His tranquillity is disturbed when an obnoxious American couple move into the village.
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Ripley novels volume 4
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary...
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Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time. SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING ANDREW SCOTT, JOHNNY FLYNN, AND DAKOTA FANNING. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--not even murder--to accomplish his goals. In achieving for himself the opulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself to be a...
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