RIPLEY UNDER WATER. - Hardcover

Highsmith, Patricia.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747510040 ISBN 13: 9780747510048

Publisher: BLOOMSBURY., 1991

Synopsis

En “Ripley en Peligro”, Patricia Highsmith -siempre dentro del género negro/policial- da muestras de una trama densa desde el punto de vista narrativo/psicológico. Tom Ripley y su mujer Heloise disfrutan de una plácida existencia en el paraíso perdido de una pequeña localidad francesa, cuando aparecen en escena los Pritchard, una enigmática pareja de norteamericanos quienes sacarán a luz dos asesinatos que Ripley habría cometido tiempo atrás. Cuando el pasado acecha, Ripley se encuentra acorralado por las encrucijadas de su propio sentimiento de culpa…

About this title

From the Back Cover

For more than four decades, Patricia Highsmith has developed her unique mastery of suspense - not least in her renowned cycle of novels featuring Tom Ripley. Now, with the fifth in that series and her first new novel in five years, she demonstrates yet again her ability, as Graham Greene wrote, "to create a world of her own, a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger". Though his talent for evil has in no way diminished, Tom Ripley has aged, even mellowed. Now leading the good life in the French countryside, complete with chic wife and devoted housekeeper, he is more interested in his wine stores than the bloodstains on the cellar floor. Then a meddlesome American couple takes up residence in the same village. Though at first the Pritchards seem a mere curiosity, their taste as execrable as their manners, they are annoyingly well informed about incidents in Ripley's past and almost smug about flaunting their knowledge. This, of course, disturbs the tranquillity of the charmed, cultured life for which Tom has worked so hard, and he has no choice but to bedevil the Pritchards in return. Thus begins a spirited, sophisticated game of cat and mouse that leads to Tangier and London and back again, to the pond behind the Pritchards' house. It is Ripley at his most suave and devious - and Patricia Highsmith in peak form. For her aficionados, Ripley Under Water is utterly essential - and for readers new to her work, a spectacular introduction to "a natural novelist" (John Gross, The New York Times).

About the Author

Patricia Highsmith (1921 1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, The Blunderer and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

Edition details

• Publisher: BLOOMSBURY.
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747510040
• ISBN 13: 9780747510048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 247