The Boy Who Followed Ripley - Brossura

Highsmith, Patricia

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ISBN 10: 067974567X ISBN 13: 9780679745679

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 1993

Riassunto

In this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce. And when, on the boy's behalf, Tom Ripley is drawn from his lovely estate in the French countryside to Berlin's seamy underworld and into a kidnapping plot that requires the most bizarre methods--and sinister acumen--for intervention, the icily amoral Ripley is transformed into a generous and compassionate projector.

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L'autore:

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

Product Description:

New York . 21 cm. 291 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed. Detective and mystery stories .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 067974567X

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• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 067974567X
• ISBN 13: 9780679745679
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304