The Boy Who Followed Ripley

Category: Book
By (author): Highsmith, Patricia
Subject:  FICTION / General
  FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
Publisher: WW Norton
Published: August 2008
Format: Book-paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 8.22in x 5.50in x 1.00in
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From The Publisher*Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).
Biographical NotePatricia 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.