Name: The Talented mr Ripley: Play (Screen and Cinema)
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Author: Highsmith, Patricia ; Nagy, Phyllis
ISBN: 9780413732200

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The Talented mr Ripley: Play (Screen and Cinema)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patricia Highsmith

Phyllis Nagy

Publisher

A&c Black 3pl

Year

1999

Language

English

Pages

100

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 12.7 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN

0413732207

ISBN13

9780413732200

Synopsis "The Talented mr Ripley: Play (Screen and Cinema) "

The first stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's famous crime novelTomRipley is a criminal with an ambiguous past. He is sent to Italy by awealthy financier to try and coax home the rich man's son. In theprocess Ripley becomes both attracted and seduced, finding the murderthe only way to deal with the situation. From that point Ripley triesto cover up his crime. Patricia Highsmith's beguiling tale of moralityand amorality is given a dramatic rendering by contemporary dramatistPhyllis Nagy, who knew Highsmith in her later years in Paris."Eachplay I see by Phyllis Nagy confirms me in the belief that she is thefinest playwright to have emerged in the 1990s" (Financial Times)

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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