The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith An American classic and the inspiration for the Emmy Award-winning Netflix series. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Its here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmiths 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 Ripleys fascination with Dickies debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickies 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. Author Biography 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. Review "The Talented Mr. Ripley is a standard-bearer, indelibly woven into the fabric of contemporary crime fiction." -- Sarah Weinman - New York Times"[A] masterwork of American noir.…Scene by masterful scene, sentence by sentence, with each disturbing thought and memory, Highsmith reveals how Ripleys psyche veers out of bounds, a slow drip punctuated by shocking jumps." -- Carole V. Bell - NPR"The most sinister and strangely alluring quintet the crime-fiction genre has ever produced." -- Mark Harris - Entertainment Weekly"I devoured [The Talented Mr. Ripley] and didnt want it to end. I had to ration myself to a couple of pages a day." -- Judi Dench - New York Times"The particular subversive thrill of this novel is that the reader inevitably begins to associate with, and root for, the sociopathic Tom. The other notable pleasure, one that is shared by the four sequels that Highsmith wrote (the series is sometimes called the Ripliad), is the way the writing immerses you in the details of mid-century travel. Gin at lunchtime, cafes in the sunlight, lives conducted through letter-writing: all a lovely backdrop to a tale of murder." -- Peter Swanson - The Guardian"In the same way that Vince Gilligan made Breaking Bads Walter White an awful person that I took a guilty pleasure in rooting for, Highsmith made the detestable Tom Ripley an intriguing character that I hoped would get away with his crimes." -- Mark Frauenfelder - BoingBoing"[A] riveting story that examines identity, ambition, sexuality, and a few different forms of love." -- Chris Pavone, New York Times best-selling author of Two Nights in Lisbon"[Highsmith] forces us to re-evaluate the lines between reason and madness, normal and abnormal, while goading us into sharing her treacherous heros point of view." -- Michiko Kakutani - New York Times"The brilliance of Highsmiths conception of Tom Ripley was her ability to keep the heroic and demonic American dreamer in balance in the same protagonist—thus keeping us on his side well after his behavior becomes far more sociopathic than that of a con man like Gatsby." -- Frank Rich - New York Times Magazine"Mesmerizing...a Ripley novel is not to be safely recommended to the weak-minded or impressionable." -- Washington Post"[Highsmith] has created a world of her own—a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger." -- Graham Greene"[Tom Ripley] is as appalling a protagonist as any mystery writer has ever created." -- Newsday"Murder, in Patricia Highsmiths hands, is made to occur almost as casually as the bumping of a fender or a bout of food poisoning. This downplaying of the dramatic... has been much praised, as has the ordinariness of the details with which she depicts the daily lives and mental processes of her psychopaths. Both undoubtedly contribute to the domestication of crime in her fiction, thereby implicating the reader further in the sordid fantasy that is being worked out." -- Robert Towers - New York Review of Books"Savage in the way of Rabelais or Swift." -- Joyce Carol Oates - New York Review of Books"For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, theres no one like Patricia Highsmith." -- Time"Highsmiths subversive touch is in making the reader complicit with Ripleys cold logic." -- Daily Telegraph (UK) Long Description Ripley is back. This new publication of Patricia Highsmiths classic inaugurates the complete Ripley series at Norton. Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickies ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry Jamess "The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley"--immortalized in the 1998 film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gywneth Paltrow--is an unforgettable introduction to this debonair confidence man, whose talent for self-invention and calculated murder is chronicled in four subsequent novels. Review Text "The brilliance of Highsmiths conception of Tom Ripley was her ability to keep the heroic and demonic American dreamer in balance in the same protagonist--thus keeping us on his side well after his behavior becomes far more sociopathic than that of a con man like Gatsby." Review Quote "[Tom Ripley] is as appalling a protagonist as any mystery writer has ever created." Details ISBN0393332144 Author Patricia Highsmith Short Title TALENTED MR RIPLEY Language English ISBN-10 0393332144 ISBN-13 9780393332148 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2008 Residence SZ Birth 1921 Death 1995 DOI 10.1604/9780393332148 Imprint WW Norton & Co Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2008-05-19 NZ Release Date 2008-05-19 US Release Date 2008-05-19 UK Release Date 2008-05-19 Translator Susan Bernofsky Affiliation Columbia University Position Professor Qualifications Ph.D. Pages 288 Publisher WW Norton & Co Publication Date 2008-05-19 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:43657559;

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