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An American classic and the inspiration for the motion picture starring Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow.

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 unnervingand unnervingly revealing of the American psycheas ever.

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‘The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer’ The Times

‘Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation’ Daily Telegraph

‘He is using you for what you are worth’

Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life – and he’s willing to kill for it. Struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors, and the law, Ripley leaps at the chance to start afresh on a free trip to Europe. But when his new-found happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.

This is the first in Highsmith’s classic series featuring the character of Tom Ripley. The Talented Mr Ripley also inspired the Academy Award-winning film starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law.

One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.

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DIMENSION : 198 mm x 130 mm
WEIGHT : 193 g
SERIES : A Ripley Novel

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