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Tutto fila liscio nella vita di Tom Ripley: abita in una lussuosa villa vicino a Fontainebleau, ha una moglie bellissima e innamorata, un cospicuo conto in banca e nessun senso di colpa per i suoi trascorsi non proprio immacolati. Fino a quando si imbatte in David Pritchard, un eccentrico vicino, che intuisce l'origine illecita del benessere e della felicità di Tom ed è determinato a scavare nel suo passato. Pritchard comincia così a indagare su Ripley, dapprima spiandolo tra le mura domestiche e poi seguendolo in Marocco, fino a scoprire un corpo che Ripley vorrebbe rimanesse per sempre nascosto sul fondo di un canale. Vecchi delitti che riaffiorano dal passato, pedinamenti ossessivi, il rischio costante di essere scoperti: il quinto e ultimo capitolo della saga di Tom Ripley avvolge il lettore in una spirale di inquietudine crescente, tessuta come la tela di un ragno dalla maestria di Patricia Highsmith.
- ISBN: 8834604628
- Casa Editrice: La nave di Teseo
- Pagine: 400
- Data di uscita: 21-01-2021
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Poor Tom Ripley has flip flopped sexual orientations more often than a Republican senator with a drinking problem. After the closeted but ultragay Boy Who Followed Ripley, he's straighter than he's ever been with this dying whimper of a last Ripley book. The gayest thing he does here is read a biogr Leggi tutto
Ripley Under Water (1991) (Ripley #5) is a satisfying conclusion to Patricia Highsmith 's Ripliad.... The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) Ripley Under Ground (1970) Ripley's Game (1974) The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980) Ripley Under Water (1991) Apparently Patricia Highsmith had plans to write a sixth book how Leggi tutto
A really thoroughly enjoyable end to Highsmith’s Ripley series, with Tom Ripley being haunted by a couple who are digging into his past. At times with feels like a greatest hits, with Ripley’s past crimes discussed and dissected. And throughout it all you get the kind of wonderful tension that time Leggi tutto
i do feel bad giving this two stars but it just isn't up there with the previous novels. there's just something missing from this one, maybe the action? it relies a bit too much on the plotlines and characters of the previous books too, instead of being its own thing. how annoying that this is how t Leggi tutto
When you crack open one of Highsmith's Ripley novels, it's only a matter of time before good old Tom (or 'Tome', as his French acquaintances pronounce it) decides that killing someone is an option to whatever his current predicament happens to be. In "Ripley Under Water", it was definitely trending
This is perhaps the most disturbing of the Ripley books, despite the villains being the most despicable and unlikable to date. In a way, David Pritchard is Tom Ripley's opposite number: he's in the same game, but he's hopelessly incompetent at trying to scare Tom or get revenge on him. Pritchard is
Very disappointing final 5th volume of the Tom Ripley series. Don't waste your time with this one. I read it for completeness, but it was a waste of time. Also the North African location did not add anything to the plot...Belle Hombre would have been so much better.
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