The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tom Ripley, a young New York striver with a gift for mimicry, is hired to bring a rich man's playboy son home from the Italian coast. Instead he falls for Dickie Greenleaf's sunlit life and decides to take it for himself. The first of Patricia Highsmith's five Ripley novels, and still the most seductive.
Read it before Helen Mirren plays Highsmith in Anton Corbijn's A Talent for Murder (Bleecker Street), in theaters October 23, 2026, about a young New York publisher sent to Switzerland to talk her into one last Ripley novel. Sunlight, envy, and the perfect con. Get tickets
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