The Talented Mr. Ripley.
HIGHSMITH, Patricia.
The Talented Mr. Ripley.
"Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing": FIRST EDITION OF THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY; SIGNED BY PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
New York: Coward-McCann, 1955.
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Item Number: 628
First edition of the author’s first book in her acclaimed Ripley series. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Patrica Highsmith on the front free endpaper. Light wear to the bottom cloth, fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light wear to the extremities. A very bright example.
"Consistently named as one of a half-dozen greatest of all suspense writers, Highsmith also created a truly unique character in Ripley, who has remained his totally amoral, if charming, self through five novels" (100 Top Mystery Novels of All Time, 71). "The brilliance of Highsmith's conception of Tom Ripley was her ability to keep the heroic and demonic American dreamer in balance in the same protagonist—thus keeping us on his side well after his behavior becomes far more sociopathic than that of a con man like Gatsby" (Frank Rich, New York Times Magazine). Adapted to film in 1999 film starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
