by Patricia Highsmith · Editorial Anagrama S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433920072
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«La máscara de Ripley» is the suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (256 pages, in Spanish).
Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith's ambiguous character, lives quietly near Paris, married to a French heiress. His partners at the Buckmaster gallery ask him to dispel an American collector's suspicion about a fake Derwatt painting; the painter has died and Ripley will have to sustain the deception.
The original title of this novel is «Ripley Under Ground» (1970); it is the second installment in the Tom Ripley series. Translation by Jordi Beltrán.
For those who want to follow Tom Ripley's stories and for readers of psychological thrillers.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
