Книга: Highsmith Patricia «The Talented Mr Ripley»

The Talented Mr Ripley

Серия: "Virago modern classics"

The novel begins with a play on James's The Ambassadors. Tom Ripley is chosen by the wealthy Herbert Greenleaf to retrieve Greenleaf's son, Dickie, from his overlong sojourn in Italy. Dickie, it seems, is held captive both by the Mediterranean climate and the attractions of his female companion, but Mr. Greenleaf needs him back in New York to help with the family business. With an allowance and a new purpose, Tom leaves behind his dismal city apartment to begin his career as a return escort. But Tom, too, is captivated by Italy. He is also taken with the life and looks of Dickie Greenleaf. He insinuates himself into Dickie's world and soon finds that his passion for a lifestyle of wealth and sophistication transcends all moral compunction. Tom will become Dickie Greenleaf - at all costs.

Издательство: "Little, Brown and Company" (2015)

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Highsmith, Patricia

▪ 1996

      U.S. writer (b. Jan. 19, 1921, Fort Worth, Texas—d. Feb. 4, 1995, Locarno, Switz.), crafted suspense-filled psychological thrillers that summoned a mounting feeling of apprehension, beginning with Strangers on a Train (1950; filmed 1951) and continuing with some 20 novels, 5 of them featuring the chilling psychopath Tom Ripley, an amoral gentleman murderer. In many of her works, seemingly harmless activities often foreshadowed violence. Highsmith's ingeniously written novels and her compelling short stories earned her a cult following in Europe, where she moved in 1963. She surrounded herself with cats and lived as a recluse in Italy, France, and finally Switzerland. Among her other books are The Price of Salt (1952; written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan), a tale of a love affair between a young girl and a married woman; The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975), about the killing of humans by animals; and Ripley Under Water (1991), the last work featuring her popular central character.

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▪ American writer
original name  Mary Patricia Plangman  
born Jan. 19, 1921, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
died Feb. 4, 1995, Locarno, Switz.

      American novelist and short-story writer who is best known for psychological thrillers, in which she delved into the nature of guilt, innocence, good, and evil.

      Highsmith, who took her stepfather's name, graduated from Barnard College, New York City, in 1942 and traveled to Europe in 1949, eventually settling there. In 1950 she published Strangers on a Train, an intriguing story of two men, one ostensibly good and the other ostensibly evil, whose lives become inextricably entangled. The following year the novel was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock, Sir Alfred), using a screenplay by Raymond Chandler (Chandler, Raymond) and Czenzi Ormonde. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) is the first of several books featuring the adventures of a likable murderer, Tom Ripley, who takes on the identities of his victims. The novel won several awards for mystery writing. Ripley also appears in Ripley Under Ground (1970), Ripley's Game (1974), The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), and Ripley Under Water (1991). Among her other books are The Price of Salt (1952; written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan), a tale of a love affair between a married woman and a younger, unmarried woman, and The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975), about the killing of humans by animals. Highsmith's collections of short stories include The Black House (1981) and Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987).

      Highsmith also wrote on the craft of writing. In her Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966; revised and enlarged 1981), she held that “art has nothing to do with morality, convention, or moralizing.”

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Источник: Highsmith, Patricia

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