Name: Ripley s'Amuse (in French)
SKU: 59252681
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Author: Highsmith, Patricia
ISBN: 9782253056171

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patricia Highsmith

Publisher

Livre de Poche

Language

French

Pages

381

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.5x10.9x1.8 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9782253056171

Synopsis "Ripley s'Amuse (in French)"

Comment assassiner deux mafiosi sans se salir les mains ? Pour rendre ce service à un ami, Tom Ripley a besoin d'un homme au-dessus de tout soupçon et disposé à se charger de la besogne.Jonathan Trevanny, pauvre et honnète père de famille, atteint de leucémie, pourrait ètre celui-là, et il accepterait afin de laisser aux siens une coquette somme d'argent...Et le voilà, hésitant mais tenté, aux mains du séduisant et diabolique Ripley, qui sait comment faire naître la corruption et le meurtre chez un ètre hanté par sa mort prochaine.Troisième roman consacré par Patricia Highsmith à son inquiétant héros, Ripley s'amuse a été porté à l'écran, en 1977, par Wim Wenders sous le titre L'Ami américain.

Patricia Highsmith

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She was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921, but moved to New York when she was six years old. By the age of sixteen, she became a writer. She was known for being a solitary person. She moved to Europe in 1963 and spent her last years in a secluded house near Locarno, on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Upon her death, she left three million dollars from her estate to Yaddo, the artists' community in upstate New York. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was turned into a famous movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.

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