Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life - and he was willing to kill for it. This is the first novel to feature Patricia Highsmith's anti-hero, Tom Ripley.
Ripley Séries
Cette série suit la vie d'un escroc charismatique mais psychopathe qui construit sa vie sur des mensonges et des usurpations d'identité. Nous sommes témoins de ses jeux dangereux avec le destin et de ses tentatives pour échapper à la justice tout en naviguant dans le monde des riches et des sans scrupules. La tension monte à chaque pas qu'il fait, le poussant plus profondément dans un abîme moral. C'est une exploration captivante de la psychologie sombre et un miroir des illusions sociétales.
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Tascabili - 753: Il talento di Mr. Ripley
- 295pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors , The Talented Mr. Ripley —is up to his tricks in a 90s film and also Rene Clement's 60s film, "Purple Noon."
Ripley et les ombres
- 315pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Dans ce livre s'entremêlent des personnages réels et leurs ombres, à un rythme obsessionnel que Patricia Highsmith rend insupportable. Le suspense est ici - et plus que - jamais - d'une intensité lancinante ; mais le talent de Patricia Highsmith se révèle également dans la minutieuse analyse psychologique de Tom Ripley, personnage ambigu, acharné à survivre et absent de lui-même, solitaire et perpétuellement en quête de son identité, assassin presque malgré lui ou plutôt incapable de retenir ses instincts criminels.
Ripley's Game
- 285pages
- 10 heures de lecture
Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a party. The perpetrator: Jonathan Trevanny, a picture framer from a neighboring village. Now, while an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, the game Ripley has in mind is far subtler, and infinitely more sinister. A social slight doesn't warrant murder of course, just a chain of events that may lead to it.
The Boy who Followed Ripley
- 335pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Fearing that he was directly responsible for the death of his father, an American multimillionaire food magnate, sixteen-year-old Frank Pierson learns of a plot to kidnap him and enlists the aid of Tom Ripley, an American expatriate in Paris
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"Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral ... Tom Ripley stops at nothing--not even murder--to accomplish his goals."--Jacket
