Ripley (Russian)

Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime-forgery, extortion, serial murder-Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game. In Ripley's Game, first published in 1974, Patricia Highsmith's classic chameleon relishes the opportunity to simultaneously repay an insult and help a friend commit a crime-and escape the doldrums of his idyllic retirement. This third novel in Highsmith's series is one of her most psychologically nuanced-particularly memorable for its dark, absurd humor-and was hailed by critics for its ability to manipulate the tropes of the genre. With the creation of Ripley, one of literature's most seductive sociopaths, Highsmith anticipated the likes of Norman Bates and Hannibal Lecter years before their appearance. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

«Tot, kto sledoval za misterom Ripli»-chetvertyy roman o samom izvestnom personazhe amerikanskoy pisatel'nicy Patricii Haysmit, vovlekayushchey chitatelya v svoy strannyy, zamknutyy, irracional'nyy mir smeshchennyh moral'nyh cennostey i razmytyh granic mezhdu dobrom i zlom. V mistere Ripli s trudom teper' mozhno uznat' togo nishchego, bez grosha v karmane, paren'ka s temnym proshlym, kotoryy «ne ostanovitsya ni pered chem». CHitatel' vstrechaet Toma Ripli v ego roskoshnom francuzskom pomest'e, gde tot naslazhdaetsya svoimi georginami, igroy na klavesine i drugimi nevinnymi radostyami, a sbytu poddel'nyh kartin predpochitaet prodazhu kistey i krasok. Odnako ego spokoynaya zhizn' menyaetsya, kogda Ripli znakomitsya s shestnadcatiletnim amerikancem iz ochen' bogatoy sem'i, kotoryy sbezhal iz domu posle zagadochnoy smerti svoego otca, magnata pishchevoy promyshlennosti. Ripli ispytyvaet k podrostku strannoe sochuvstvie, sobytiya stremitel'no razvivayutsya, i vskore eta neozhidannaya para okazyvaetsya vovlechena v prestupnyy mir Zapadnogo Berlina 1970-h godov...

«Mister Ripli pod vodoy»-pyatyy, i posledniy roman v serii o samom izvestnom personazhe Patricii Haysmit, amerikanskoy pisatel'nicy, priznannom mastere psihologicheskogo detektiva. Cenitel' muzyki i cvetov, zabotlivyy muzh, estet i gedonist, a v proshlom lovkiy avantyurist i hladnokrovnyy ubiyca, Tom Ripli davno uzhe predpochitaet riskovannym aferam s poddelkoy kartin zanyatiya v sadu, a kulinarnye shedevry znachat dlya nego ne men'she, chem shedevry zhivopisi. No proshloe ne tak legko otpustit', i iz ego temnyh glubin vyplyvayut poroy zhutkie prizraki, davno pohoronennye pod tolshchey vody...