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1) Tom Ripley I
Author
Series
Anagrama compendium volume 21
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Presents the first two appearances of the author's antihero, Tom Ripley, as he travels to Europe to convince a rich man's son to return home, and establishes himself on the continent with a new identity, and, twenty years later, as a seemingly respectable man married to an heiress.
Author
Series
Anagrama compendium volume 22
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Presents the final three appearances of the author's antihero, Tom Ripley, as he becomes involved with another man, is followed around by an unusual teenager, and must deal with people who seem to know his secrets and plan to use them against him.
Author
Series
Ripley novels volume 1
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The cunning schemes of a young American ne'er-do-well, who travels to Italy on an unusual assignment.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
Series
Criterion collection volume 793
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young picture framer thinks that he has a terminal disease and is set up to become a hired assassin in West Germany because of the lure of quick money.
8) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
After having been missing for four years and presumed dead, Travis emerges from the desert near the Texas-Mexico border and collapses at a gas station. His younger brother, Walt, a billboard artist, takes him to Walt's Los Angeles home where Travis' son, Hunter, has lived with Walt and Walt's wife, Anne, since Travis and his wife, Jane, disappeared. Travis reestablishes a relationship with Hunter, finds Jane and brings about a reunion between Jane...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world—where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.
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...10) Loving Highsmith
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks, and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith2s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing. Most of Highsmith2s novels were adapted for the big screen; the best known of these are Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Carol, a partly autobiographic...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Surely
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt. Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes--reimagining the events that...
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