"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."--Frank RichNow 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 Tim
Ripley Under Ground: A Virago Modern Classic
โ Scribed by Highsmith, Patricia
- Book ID
- 109050629
- Publisher
- Hachette UK
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780393332131
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Tom Ripley is now the owner of a beautiful estate in France, a wealthy art collector and married to an heiress. The Buckmaster Gallery is staging an exhibition by the celebrated artist, Derwatt, but an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course and he wants to talk to Derwatt - but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead. Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean, but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder. Ripley Under Ground is an ingenious novel of masks and identity, illusion and reality, and is followed by Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water. 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times
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