by Patricia Highsmith · Relógio D'Água Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896415624
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«A Máscara de Ripley» is the suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Relógio D'Água Editores in paperback (280 pages, in Portuguese).
Six years after inheriting Dickie Greenleaf's fortune, Tom Ripley lives in a French country house, married to a rich heiress and surrounded by art. The art forgery scheme he helped set up wobbles when a meddlesome American asks questions in London, and he will have to travel to protect his web of lies.
Second instalment of the Ripley series; the original, Ripley Under Ground, was published in 1970, and this Portuguese edition is from 2016, translated by Paulo Esteves Cardoso.
For readers of crime and suspense fiction, and for those who want to follow Tom Ripley's adventures.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
