The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley #1) -

Patricia Highsmith

W. W. Norton & Company

2012

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-10: B007Q6XJGS

An American classic and the inspiration for the motion picture starring Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow.

It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game. “Sinister and strangely alluring” (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.

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4 (Muito bom)

“He began to invent. His mind steadied.”

Li o livro com o mesmo sentimento que tive do filme, amando a cada minuto e até me vendo na estória.

Acho muito interessante a forma como a autora tratou o protagonista e como ela escreveu sobre as pessoas queers na época, trazendo uma tensão entre os personagens que você esperava a todo minuto algo acontecer entre eles. Além disso, não vou mentir, tive momentos em que estava torcendo pelo Ripley e quando ele começou a sua farsa eu estava lhe apoiando até porque quem nunca iria aceitar uma viagem com tudo pago para itália? Meu maior sonho.