The Boy Who Followed Ripley - Highsmith, Patricia
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In this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce. And when, on the boy's behalf, Tom Ripley is drawn from his lovely estate in the French countryside to Berlin's seamy underworld and into a kidnapping plot that requires the most bizarre methods - and sinister acumen - for intervention, the icily amoral Ripley is transformed into a generous and compassionate projector.

Produktbeschreibung
In this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce. And when, on the boy's behalf, Tom Ripley is drawn from his lovely estate in the French countryside to Berlin's seamy underworld and into a kidnapping plot that requires the most bizarre methods - and sinister acumen - for intervention, the icily amoral Ripley is transformed into a generous and compassionate projector.
Autorenporträt
Patricia Highsmith (geboren am 19.1.1921, Fort Worth/Texas, gestorben 4.2.1995, Locarno, begraben in Tegna/Tessin) wuchs in Texas und New York auf. Studium der Literatur und Zoologie. Erste Kurzgeschichten an der Highschool, erster Lebensunterhalt als Comictexterin, erster Welterfolg 1950 mit ihrem Romanerstling "Zwei Fremde im Zug", dessen Verfilmung durch Alfred Hitchcock sie über Nacht weltberühmt machte.
Patricia Highsmith
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The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable The Times