The Boy Who Followed Ripley.

HIGHSMITH, Patricia.

Item Number: 120184

New York: Lippincott & Crowell, Publishers, 1980.

First edition of this classic work regarding Tom Ripley “who is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that ‘penniless young man without a past’ who will stop at nothing” (Frank Rich). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Patricia Highsmith on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Pat Voehl.

The Boy Who Followed Ripley, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's darkest and most twisted creations. Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping. In this masterful thriller, Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer.