Ripley's Game

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Report

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

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Highsmith
• Publisher: Vintage, New York
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9780099283683
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928368-3
• No. of pages: 255
• Weight: 175 g
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage; Tom Ripley; Vintage Paperbacks; Tom Ripley; A Ripley Novel
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Crime, France, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Classic fiction, Relating to middle adulthood