Rating: ★★★★★
Genre: Psychological Fiction
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Read: 05/22/22
Amazon Synopsis:
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.
Review:
| "Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experience." Tom Ripley is an anti-hero , an immoral sociopath, narcissistic, selfish, and has absolutely no empathy. He is certainly talented and quite intelligent, albeit a very flawed character. He is loathsome and yet so intriguing. Somehow there is a feeling of sympathy towards Tom, maybe because he struggles with his desires towards the same sex, which was completely unacceptable, and his desires cause him to want so badly to become someone else entirely. Also, the way he was treated by his aunt during his childhood had him always questioning his feelings and self-worth. I've seen the movie many times so I knew mostly of what was going to unfold, but to have it so detailed made his character even more dark and disturbing! So worth the time spent reading!! "His stories were good because he imagined them intensely, so intensely that he came to believe them." Goodreads Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/ Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Patricia-Highsmith/e/ Review Links: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/ https://www.bookbub.com/reviews/ https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ |
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