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The Complete Ripley Novels: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, the Boy Who Followed Ripley, Ripley Under Waterby Patricia Highsmith
Review-a-Day (What is Review-a-Day?)"The hallmark of [Highsmith's] work is a calm, hallucinatory intensity built on sentences of unemotional plainness and clarity. Her hypersensitive protagonists, logically, inexorably, spiral downhill from ordinary anxiety to murderous rage and madness." Michael Dirda, New York Review of Books (read the entire New York Review of Books review) Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Complete Ripley Novels — a first-time, boxed collection of the entire Ripley series — is a cause for critical and popular celebration. Its publication reflects the fact that Patricia Highsmith, "no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre...than are Dostoevsky, Faulkner and Camus" (Joan Smith, Los Angeles Times), has finally entered the American literary canon. Marginalized throughout her career as a mere thriller writer, Highsmith has experienced a remarkable renaissance since her death in 1995. Now Highsmith fans and new readers alike can find these five novels — The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley, and Ripley Under Water — all housed under one roof in this brilliantly designed, highly collectible edition. Review:More than 50 years after Highsmith first introduced him in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), fans of the dashing and dangerous Tom Ripley can enjoy all his adventures in one set — The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water. Highsmith (1921 - 1991) first gained prominence with her 1950 novel, Strangers on a Train, adapted a year later to film by Alfred Hitchcock. But it was Ripley who cemented her name in the burgeoning genre of psychological suspense. From his first murder — of rich playboy Dickie Greenleaf in Talented — to his graceful fade into anonymity in Under Water, Ripley is everything crime fiction fans love in an (anti)hero: a charmingly slick killer who can worm his way out of anything. About the AuthorPatricia Highsmith, who died in Switzerland in 1995, wrote more than thirty novels, including Strangers on a Train and The Price of Salt, as well as numerous short stories. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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