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The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4) by Highsmith, Patricia is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4) about?
"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."Frank Rich Now 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 Times Book Review ), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior" (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette ). From Library Journal To coincide with the premiere of the paperback publication of 1992's Ripley Under Water ( LJ 10/1/92), Vintage is releasing a brace of Highsmith's earlier adventures of Ripley, the cordial young man with the talent for murder. Dubbed "especially brilliant" by LJ 's reviewer, Ripley's Game ( LJ 5/1/74) finds the protagonist continually bungling a hit, while The Boy Who Followed Ripley ( LJ 5/1/80) finds him trying to protect a young man on the run after
Who reads The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4)?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Highsmith, Patricia
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 1980
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393332117
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thrillers
- Rating
- 3.64 / 5 (971 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14