Ripley's Game
$24.32
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
22 October 1999
Summary
Highsmith constructs her plot with masterly finesse’ - Daily Telegraph
Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. Wherever possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who would commit ‘two simple murders’ for a very generous fee.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099283683 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099283689 |
| Author: | Patricia Highsmith |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 1999 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | A Ripley Novel |
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Critics Review
To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability
To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability * Sunday Times *Highsmith has done it again. It seems to me she has reached a point where because she knows exactly what she is about she cannot miss * The Times *It’s hard to imagine anyone interested in modern fiction who has not read the Ripley novels * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Patricia Highsmith
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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