Name: El Amigo Americano (in Spanish)
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Author: Highsmith, Patricia
ISBN: 9788433978172

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patricia Highsmith

Publisher

Anagrama

Collection

COMPACTOS

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9788433978172

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "El Amigo Americano (in Spanish)"

El personaje de Tom Ripley, que ha fascinado a tantos lectores, y también a tantos de los mejores cineastas (René Clément, Wim Wenders, Anthony Minghella, Liliana Cavani, entre otros), es el protagonista de esta extraordinaria novela de Patricia Highsmith. Nada al principio une a Jonathan Trevanny con Tom Ripley. Jonathan es un hombre honesto y pobre que lleva una existencia apacible y gris, junto a su mujer y su hijo ¿Por qué Tom Ripley le pide que asesine a dos mafiosos? La razón es que Jonathan Trevanny no tiene nada que perder: enfermo de leucemia, le espera una muerte inminente, y su conciencia empieza a sumergirse en un estado de duermevela. El asesinato de dos mafiosos quizá no sea verdaderamente un crimen; el dinero, que su mujer y su hijo necesitarán después de su muerte, quizá no sea, en realidad, dinero sucio... Minuciosamente, con su arte maravilloso del suspense, Patricia Highsmith analiza el lento trabajo de la corrupción en un ser acechado por la muerte, convertido en una marioneta del inquietante Ripley.

Patricia Highsmith

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She was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921, but moved to New York when she was six years old. By the age of sixteen, she became a writer. She was known for being a solitary person. She moved to Europe in 1963 and spent her last years in a secluded house near Locarno, on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Upon her death, she left three million dollars from her estate to Yaddo, the artists' community in upstate New York. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was turned into a famous movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.

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