description: Read by Michael HaydenSix cassettes / approx. 10 hoursThe chilling crime fiction classic--now a major motion picture from Paramount, starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, and Jude Law, written and directed by Anthony Minghella (
  The English Patient
), and produced by Sydney Pollack.In Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith created the perfect criminal.  In The Talented Mr. Ripley, circumstances and opportunities transform him from a petty perpetrator of fraud into a suave, agreeable, and totally amoral artist of crime, who will stop at nothing--certainly not a single murder--to get what he desires.
title: The Talented Mr. Ripley
titlecomplete: The Talented Mr. Ripley
characters: Dickie Greenleaf, Freddie Miles, Marge Sherwood, Tom Ripley
genres: Fiction, Italy, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 85263
places: Venice, Rome, Italy, New York City, New York, Italian Riviera, Mongibello
series: Ripley
awards: awardedAt: -410198400000
name: Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
category: Romans étrangers, awardedAt: -441820800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Random House Audio