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ByPatricia Highsmith
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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
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|Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing.|—Frank Rich Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, |a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened| (New York Times Book Review), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In these volumes, we find Ripley ensconced on a French estate with a wealthy wife, a world-class art collection, and a past to hide. In Ripley Under Ground (1970), an art forgery goes awry and Ripley is threatened with exposure; in The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld; and in Ripley Under Water (1991), Ripley is confronted by a snooping American couple obsessed with the disappearance of an art collector who visited Ripley years before. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides |a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior| (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).
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