El Talento de Mr. Ripley

This is the most famous Patricia Highsmith's novel and is the one that first introduced her amazing and amoral character: Mr. Ripley, which is the leading figure of a literary genre created by the author: a genre between crime and noir fiction, between Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler, where frenetic suspense makes one with psychological thriller. Mr. Greenleaf, an American millionaire, asks Tom Ripley to convince his son Dickie -who is living in Italy like a Bohemian- to come back...
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This is the most famous Patricia Highsmith's novel and is the one that first introduced her amazing and amoral character: Mr. Ripley, which is the leading figure of a literary genre created by the author: a genre between crime and noir fiction, between Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler, where frenetic suspense makes one with psychological thriller. Mr. Greenleaf, an American millionaire, asks Tom Ripley to convince his son Dickie -who is living in Italy like a Bohemian- to come back home. Ripley agrees, finds Dickie and his friend Marga and makes a complex and shady relationship with them, ending in a bewildering finale.