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The Boy Who Followed Ripley Patricia Highsmith

The Boy Who Followed Ripley By Patricia Highsmith

The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith


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Summary

First published in 1980, this is the fourth novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series.

The Boy Who Followed Ripley Summary

The Boy Who Followed Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith

When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friendship develops between the young man with a guilty conscience and the older one with no conscience at all. The Boy Who Followed Ripley is followed by Ripley Under Water.

The Boy Who Followed Ripley Reviews

More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior -- John Freeman Pittsburgh Gazette

About Patricia Highsmith

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.

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GOR006741169
9780349006253
0349006253
The Boy Who Followed Ripley: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
20150604
368
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