num_pages: 288
description: Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife Tom Ripley on the cusp of middle age is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crimeforgery extortion serial murderRipley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game.In Ripley's Game first published in 1974 Patricia Highsmith's classic chameleon relishes the opportunity to simultaneously repay an insult and help a friend commit a crimeand escape the doldrums of his idyllic retirement. This third novel in Highsmith's series is one of her most psychologically nuancedparticularly memorable for its dark absurd humorand was hailed by critics for its ability to manipulate the tropes of the genre. With the creation of Ripley one of literature's most seductive sociopaths Highsmith anticipated the likes of Norman Bates and Hannibal Lecter years before their appearance.
language: English
title: Ripley's Game
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company