The Talented Mr Ripley (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Softcover

Highsmith, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679742298 ISBN 13: 9780679742296

Verlag: Vintage Books, 1992

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New York . 21 cm. 295 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed. Originally published: New York : Coward-McCann, 1955. Detective and mystery stories. Psychological fiction .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0679742298

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Reseña del editor:

In a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley.  Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly like him.  Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral, Ripley stops at nothing--certainly not only one murder--to accomplish his goal.  Turning the mystery form inside out, Highsmith shows the terrifying abilities afforded to a man unhindered by the concept of evil.

Biografía del autor:

Patricia Highsmith (1921 – 1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in New York. She was educated at the Julia Richmond High School in Manhattan and then at Columbia University, where she earned her B.A. in 1942. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), tells the story of a tennis player and a psychotic who meet on a train and agree to swap murders. The terrifying tale caught the attention of director Alfred Hitchcock, who, with Raymond Chandler, filmed it in 1951. Both the book and the resulting movie are considered to be classics of the crime genre. Highsmith’s subsequent novels, particularly five featuring the dashing forger/murderer Tom Ripley, have been vastly popular and critically acclaimed. In 1957 Highsmith won the coveted French Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere and in 1964 was

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• Verlag: Vintage Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679742298
• ISBN 13: 9780679742296
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 295