Ripley's Game
$30.55
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2021
Summary
Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith’s entry into Vintage Classics.
“Marvellously, insanely readable… Highsmith has done it again” – The Times
“There’s no such thing as a perfect murder… That’s just a parlor game, trying to dream one up.”
Tom Ripley is enjoying his wealthy lifestyle in France, until an associate asks him to kill someone again. But Ripley…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784876784 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 178487678X |
| Author: | Patricia Highsmith |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm 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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