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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 protegé. En Patricia Highsmith krimi.

Krimi. På landet i Sydfrankrig nyder en ældre og mere rolig Tom Ripley frugten af tidligere tiders forbrydelser. En dag forstyrres roen imidlertid af den 16-årige amerikanske rigmandssøn Frank Pierson, der er løbet væk hjemmefra efter et familieopgør. Ripley genkender noget af sig selv i den forvirrede teenager, og i takt med at hans sympati for drengen vokser, får han indblik i et skyldbetynget teenagesinds gemte afkroge. Da Frank bliver kidnappet, får Ripley brug for al sin erfaring i den lyssky undergrund i 1980’ernes Berlin. Bag de turbulente handlinger presser ét bestemt spørgsmål sig på: Er Tom Ripley i færd med at få en lærling, og hvis ja, besidder Frank i så fald samme løse forhold til loven og ikke mindst lysten til at blive psykopat af profession? TOM RIPLEYS PROTEGÉ foreligger nu for første gang i dansk oversættelse. Det er den fjerde bog i Patricia Highsmiths psykologiske krimiserie.
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Udgivelsesdato03 jan. 2013
Udgivet afRosenkilde
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ISBN epub9788771280982