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Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.

Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Her 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted numerous times for film, theatre, and radio. Writing under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan," Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, The Price of Salt, in 1952, republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film.

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Tom Ripleys talent. En Patricia Highsmith krimi.

Krimi. I 1950’ernes New York kæmper den unge middelklassedreng Tom Ripley for at holde sammen på tilværelsen. Tilfældet bringer ham i kontakt med en millionær, og i rollen som godmodig hjælper sendes han til Italien, for at hjælpe millionæren med at skaffe den udsvævende søn, Dickie Greenleaf, tilbage på ret køl. Men Ripley viser sig snart at være alt andet end en godmodig hjælper. I kraft af sit særlige talent for at improvisere sig gennem livet i en evig imitation af andre, skaber han sin egen dagsorden. Rigmandssønnens identitet og liv er pludselig i overhængende fare for at blive overtaget. I tråd med Fitzgeralds mesterværk Den store Gatsby bliver vi med Patricia Highsmiths legendariske Tom Ripley-bøger præsenteret for den amerikanske drøms dunkle bagside. Der hvor alle kneb er tilladte, når det drejer sig om at nå til tops på den sociale rangstige – ikke mindst koldblodigt mord. TOM RIPLEY-SERIEN udkommer nu første gang samlet på dansk. Tom Ripleys talent er første bog i rækken.
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Udgivelsesdato03 jan. 2013
Udgivet afRosenkilde
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ISBN epub9788771280036