The Talented Mr. Ripley - Couverture souple

Highsmith, Patricia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393332144 ISBN 13 : 9780393332148

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

Synopsis

It's here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith's five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a "sissy." Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley's fascination with Dickie's debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie's ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game. "Sinister and strangely alluring" (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving--and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche--as ever.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393332144
• ISBN 13: 9780393332148
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible