num_pages: 249
description: Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley—is up to his tricks in a 90s film and also Rene Clement's 60s film, "Purple Noon."
language: English
title: The Talented Mr. Ripley
titlecomplete: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
characters: Dickie Greenleaf, Freddie Miles, Tom Ripley, Marge Sherwood
genres: Classics, Noir, Mystery, Italy, Suspense, Novels, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 85206
places: Mongibello, Italy, Rome, New York City, New York, Italian Riviera, Venice
series: Ripley
awards: awardedAt: -410198400000
name: Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
category: Romans étrangers, awardedAt: -441820800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Vintage / Random House