Ripley Under Water

Patricia Highsmith

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Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 06/2010
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9781408813171
Item number:: 6546544
Volume:: 256 Pages
Ausgabe:: Reissue
Copyright-Jahr:: 2010
Weight:: 213 g
Format:: 198 x 128 mm
Thickness:: 20 mm
Release date:: 7.6.2010
Note: Caution: Product is not in German language

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Short description

Der Amerikaner Tom Ripley liebt tadellose Manieren, den richtigen Burgunder zum Hummer und allmorgendlich die schönste Blume aus dem liebevoll gehegten Garten seines Landsitzes südlich von Paris. Niemand käme auf die Idee, im Keller eines solchen Herrn nach Blutspuren zu suchen. Niemand außer Ripleys neuem Nachbarn, der davon träumt, Tom Ripleys Leben zu führen.

Blurb

Tom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law - he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny ... The fifth novel featuring the protagonist Tom Ripley finds the sophisticated and amoral American expatriate being harassed by David Pritchard, a fellow American whose boorishness marks him as something of Ripley's alter-ego. Inexplicably familiar with all the incriminating details of Ripley's past, Pritchard is determined to expose him. He shadows Ripley's every move, first spying on him at home in France and then following him to Morocco. Tensions build on the return to Villeperce as Pritchard sets out to locate a body Ripley would prefer remain hidden in a nearby river ...

Biography

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.