Ripley Under Water
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Beschreibung des Verlags
Der Amerikaner Tom Ripley liebt tadellose Manieren, den richtigen Burgunder zum Hummer und allmorgendlich die schönste Blume aus dem liebevoll gehegten Garten seines Landsitzes südlich von Paris. Niemand käme auf die Idee, im Keller eines solchen Herrn nach Blutspuren zu suchen. Niemand außer Ripleys neuem Nachbarn, der davon träumt, Tom Ripleys Leben zu führen.
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With the chilling, knife-edged subtlety that is her trademark, Highsmith ( Strangers on a Train ; Ripley's Game ) details the civilized life pursued by her sociopath hero Tom Ripley, who here makes his fifth appearance and his first in a dozen years. Now living in the French countryside with his wife, Heloise, Ripley is bothered by an obnoxious American couple who have rented a house nearby and who seem bent on exploring incidents in Ripley's past. With no apparent personal motive, David Pritchard and his wife Janice refer to an American art dealer named Murchison who mysteriously disappeared some years ago after visiting Ripley. Ripley, who had murdered Murchison to prevent the exposure of an art forgery scheme and then dumped his body in a nearby canal, grows increasingly anxious and angry as Pritchard continues to harass him and begins dredging the local canals. Highsmith leads up to her resolution as unsensationally and evenhandedly as she describes Ripley's ordinary days spent tending his dahlias, practicing Schubert on the harpsichord, relishing his meals and looking out tenderly for Heloise and their housekeeper. The perfect gentleman, he is civil, considerate, utterly well mannered--and deadly. Highsmith will make readers look closer at their neighbors, and at themselves.
