Il talento di Mr. Ripley è un romanzo del 1955 di Patricia Highsmith, appartenente al genere del Thriller psicologico. In questo romanzo, l'autrice introduce per la prima volta la figura di Tom Ripley che tornerà in altri quattro libri Il sepolto vivo, L'amico americano, Il ragazzo di Tom Ripley e Ripley sott'acqua.
"Highsmith's writing is wicked . . . it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted." —Entertainment WeeklyWith Norton's publication of The Black House, Patricia Highsmith's entire body of work is now back in print. First published in 1981, this volume is one of Highsmith's most nuanced and …
Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more …