The Boy Who Followed Ripley: The fourth novel in the iconic RIPLEY series - now a major Netflix show - Softcover

Patricia Highsmith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349006253 ISBN 13: 9780349006253

Publisher: VIRAGO, 2015

Synopsis

Tom Ripley é abordado na rua por um garoto que fugira dos Estados Unidos depois de matar o pai. Intrigado com a inocência do jovem "assassino", Ripley decide hospedá-lo quando percebe que o menino está sendo seguido. Em pouco tempo, cresce entre os dois uma relação de cumplicidade, e eles viajam a Paris e depois a Berlim às escondidas. Mas ali descobrem que há mais gente interessada no garoto. Daí para a frente, o destino do menino passa a depender da astúcia e do sangue-frio de Ripley.
Charmoso, culto, rico, mas extremamente amoral, Tom Ripley é um dos mais talentosos e sedutores assassinos da literatura policial. Admirado pela crítica e pelo público, Ripley já foi interpretado no cinema por Alain Delon, Dennis Hopper, Matt Damon e John Malkovich.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

In this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce. And when, on the boy's behalf, Tom Ripley is drawn from his lovely estate in the French countryside to Berlin's seamy underworld and into a kidnapping plot that requires the most bizarre methods--and sinister acumen--for intervention, the icily amoral Ripley is transformed into a generous and compassionate projector.

About the Author

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six, where she attended the Julia Richman High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger' and The Times named her no.1 in their list of the greatest ever crime writers. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

Edition details

• Publisher: VIRAGO
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349006253
• ISBN 13: 9780349006253
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368