The Talented Mr. Ripley - by Patricia Highsmith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A dark reworking of Henry James's "The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley"--immortalized in the 1998 film--is an unforgettable introduction to this debonair confidence man, whose talent for self-invention and calculated murder is chronicled in four subsequent novels.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>It's here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith's 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 Ripley's fascination with Dickie's debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie's ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game. "Sinister and strangely alluring" (Mark Harris, <em>Entertainment Weekly</em>) <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Highsmith] forces us to re-evaluate the lines between reason and madness, normal and abnormal, while goading us into sharing her treacherous hero's point of view.--Michiko Kakutani "New York Times"<br><br>[Tom Ripley] is as appalling a protagonist as any mystery writer has ever created.-- "Newsday"<br><br>For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith.-- "Time"<br><br>Highsmith's subversive touch is in making the reader complicit with Ripley's cold logic.-- "Daily Telegraph (UK)"<br><br>In the same way that Vince Gilligan made <em>Breaking Bad</em>'s 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"<br><br>Mesmerizing...a Ripley novel is not to be safely recommended to the weak-minded or impressionable.-- "Washington Post"<br><br>Murder, in Patricia Highsmith's 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"<br><br>Savage in the way of Rabelais or Swift.--Joyce Carol Oates "New York Review of Books"<br><br>The brilliance of Highsmith's 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"<br><br>The most sinister and strangely alluring quintet the crime-fiction genre has ever produced.--Mark Harris "Entertainment Weekly"<br><br>[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<br>
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