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The Boy Who Followed Ripley

The Boy Who Followed Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

WW Norton | August 26, 2008 | Trade Paperback

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Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).
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The Boy Who Followed Ripley

The Boy Who Followed Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

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Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).

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"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing." Frank Rich

Format: Trade Paperback

Dimensions: 336 Pages, 5.12 × 7.87 × 0.79 in

Published: August 26, 2008

Publisher: WW Norton

Language: English

The following ISBNs are associated with this title:

ISBN - 10: 039333211X

ISBN - 13: 9780393332117

About the Author

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.
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