Ripley's Game
by Highsmith, Patricia
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good- condition - former library ownership with laminated cover, labels & rubber stamping/none
- ISBN 10
- 0679745688
- ISBN 13
- 9780679745686
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Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
Publisher: Vintage, 1993ISBN is 9780679745686 / 0679745688
Paperback5.1 x 8 inches, 282 pages
Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more subtle, and infinitely more sinister. A social slight doesn't warrant murder of course-- just a chain of events that may lead to it.
-------------------------Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.
She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the 1951 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Her 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted for film multiple times. Writing under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, The Price of Salt, in 1952, republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film.
Publisher: Vintage, 1993ISBN is 9780679745686 / 0679745688
Paperback5.1 x 8 inches, 282 pages
Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more subtle, and infinitely more sinister. A social slight doesn't warrant murder of course-- just a chain of events that may lead to it.
-------------------------Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.
She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the 1951 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Her 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted for film multiple times. Writing under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, The Price of Salt, in 1952, republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film.
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"This is the third volume of a five-volume set"--Publisher.
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- Bookseller
- Worldwide Collectibles (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01007202209
- Title
- Ripley's Game
- Author
- Highsmith, Patricia
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- condition - former library ownership with laminated cover, labels & rubber stamping
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679745688
- ISBN 13
- 9780679745686
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 282
- Size
- 5.1 x 8 inches
- Keywords
- novel, fiction
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