The Complete Ripley Novels
by Patricia Highsmith
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Collected here in this stunning, boxed-set edition, The Complete Ripley Novels celebrates one of fiction's most iconic literary characters. First published in 2008, The Complete Ripley Novels, brilliantly designed in a handsome slipcase, sold out its initial run. This collector's item, featuring all five classic Ripley novels--The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley, and Ripley Under Water--returns with a new printing on the twentieth show more anniversary of Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995. The Highsmith literary renaissance, initially sparked by a 1999 film adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley--which introduced fans and new readers alike to the unforgettable Tom Ripley, the debonair confidence man with a talent for self-invention and murder--continues in full force with three major Highsmith movies in the offing as well as the republication of this volume, "the most sinister and strangely alluring quintet the crime fiction genre has ever produced" (Entertainment Weekly). show lessTags
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Muy entretenida y una forma distinta. Sabemos quién es el asesino y vemos como elude a la policía.
Segunda de las entregas de la saga de Ripley. Ripley se ve envuelto, años después de la anterior novela, en otra situación extraña en la cual debe volver a asesinar y la trama consiste en como eludir a la policía. Igual de entretenida, pero muy previsible al seguir un esquema similar.
Segunda de las entregas de la saga de Ripley. Ripley se ve envuelto, años después de la anterior novela, en otra situación extraña en la cual debe volver a asesinar y la trama consiste en como eludir a la policía. Igual de entretenida, pero muy previsible al seguir un esquema similar.
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Patricia Highsmith wrote twenty-one novels including "Strangers on a Train" & the "Ripley" series. She died in 1995 in Switzerland, where she resided much of her life. (Publisher Provided) Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 -- February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer, most widely known for her psychological thrillers, show more which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. She was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Highsmith grew up with her maternal grandmother in Astoria, Queens, and attended Barnard College. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. In addition to her acclaimed series about murderer Tom Ripley, which was made into a film in 1955, she wrote many short stories, often macabre, satirical or tinged with black humor. Highsmith liked to examine the ways in which people can get to the point where they are capable of murder, as well as who they become after they have committed a crime. In carefully constructed stories and novels, she integrated this scrutiny of the human psyche into complex plots that often took unexpected twists. In Strangers on a Train, architect Guy Haines meets Charles Bruno on a train. Bruno conceives a plan to have Haines kill Bruno's father, while Bruno will kill Haines's wife. The effect that this plan has on Haines is the focus of the story. Highsmith's awards include: O. Henry Award for best publication of first story, for "The Heroine" in Harper's Bazaar (1946), Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1957), and the Dagger Award -- Category Best Foreign Novel, for The Two Faces of January from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (1964). Highsmith died of aplastic anemia and cancer in Locarno, Switzerland, at age 74. Her last novel, Small G: A Summer Idyll, was published one month after her death in 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- This is a collection of all 5 Ripley novels.
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