Synopsis
When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind, the seedy underworld of Berlin and kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as a friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all.
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About the Author
Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.
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'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith' Time
When a troubled young American runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind, the seedy underworld of Berlin and kidnapping plots, lies and deception, Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all
'Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night with a the sense that an awful possibility has been articulated only to be left unresolved' New Yorker
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