English language
Published Feb. 20, 2008 by W.W. Norton & Co..
The boy who followed Ripley
Patricia Highsmith: The boy who followed Ripley (2008, W.W. Norton & Co.)
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Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping. In this masterful thriller, Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer.
"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing." —Frank Rich, New York Times Magazine
Subjects
- Ripley, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Serial murderers -- Fiction
- Psychopaths -- Fiction
- Criminals -- Fiction
- France -- Fiction
- Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1945-1990 -- Fiction