A dark reworking of Henry James\'s The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr.
Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving--and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche--as ever..
Sinister and strangely alluring (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly ) The Talented Mr.
Soon Ripley\'s fascination with Dickie\'s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie\'s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game.
Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy.
It\'s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith\'s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a sissy.
Ripley--immortalized in the 1998 film--is an unforgettable introduction to this debonair confidence man, whose talent for self-invention and calculated murder is chronicled in four subsequent novels.
A dark reworking of Henry James\'s The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr
