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W. W. Norton
June 2008
On Sale: June 2, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0393332144
EAN: 9780393332148
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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—
immortalized in the 1998 film starring Matt Damon, Jude
Law, and Gywneth Paltrow—is an unforgettable introduction
to this debonair confidence man, whose talent for self-
invention and calculated murder is chronicled in four
subsequent novels.
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