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ISBN: 0679742301

ISBN13: 9780679742302

Ripley Under Ground

(Book #2 in the Ripley Series)

By Laura Kamoie and Stephanie Dray

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Book Overview

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). This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0679742301

ISBN13:9780679742302

Release Date:September 1992

Publisher:Vintage Books USA

Length:320 Pages

Weight:0.73 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.0"

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Rated 5 stars
Ripley Is At It Again

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 8, 2009

In the second of Patricia Highsmith's five Ripley novels, "Ripley Under Ground," it is six years since the Dickie Greenleaf and Freddie Miles homicides. Tom Ripley has settled in France, married moneyed Heloise, and is living comfortably well-off at his county home Belle Hombre with his loyal, supremely capable housekeeper Mme Annette. Tom can never play the straight and narrow; after all he does have a homicidal streak. He...

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Exciting Sequel to THE TALENTED MR. RIPPLEY

By Thriftbooks.com User, August 3, 2001

This sequel to the TALENTED MR. RIPPLEY is just as exciting and suspencful as the the first book. Actually, I read it to find out what happend next after the movie ended, but the book does not serve that purpose. The movie added a kind of cliff-hanger ending that doesn't exist in the TALENTED MR. RIPPLEY book, so the second book won't fill the reader in on that. This book begins a new adventure and series of murders that...

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The artistic killer and his bourgeois victims

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 8, 2000

"Ripley Under Ground" is the first book in the Ripley series to follow the talented Mr. Ripley. It establishes Tom Ripley as a married man living on a French estate and explains much of his transition from parasitic murderer to suave psychopath. This novel is possibly the most psychological one in the Ripley series since it endows Ripley with a tremendous artistic sensibility that often validates his homicidal choices.In...

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You won't want this one to end...

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 22, 2000

My second experience with Mr. Ripley was even better than the first! I really enjoyed the plot twists and discovering how Tom gets himself out of those difficult situations. The end left a bit of a cliffhanger, so I am anxious to read the next installment. I strongly recommend Ripley Under Ground if you enjoyed The Talented Mr. Ripley.

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A Worthy Second Novel for the Series

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 5, 1999

Tom Ripley has aquired a beautiful wife and a lovely home in the French countryside. As Tom's life can never be without conflict, Tom finds himself caught in the middle of a forgery scandal that could destroy the world he has made for himself. We find Mr Ripley a little older, a little wiser and a little more sure of his ruthless capabilities. The Author, Patrica Highsmith, stretched the lines of plausibility on this...

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