9780099554288 - [Press Kit]: The Talented Mr. Ripley (4 resultados)

Condición: New. 1999. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Condición: New. 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. Ripleyâ"is up to his tricks in a '90s film and also Rene Clement's '60s film, Purple Noon.

Condición: New. 1999. Paperback. . . . . .

Paperback. Condición: New. With a string of creditors on his tail, conman Tom Ripley is quick to accept when an acquaintance's father offers him an all-expenses-paid trip to Europe to track down his errant son, Dickie. Ripley discovers that Dickie's Italian lifestyle is just the sort he'd like for himself and, in a narrative that sees fantasy and reality begin to blur, goes to extreme lengths to secure his own happiness.