Was it perhaps aptly named [for those out of the loop, see
explanation
below]
Does anyone feel the same about this or
> any of PH's other late novels (I'm kind of ambivalent
toward
> _A_Dog's_Ransom_)?
Actually, no, as I have said before, Highsmith is my "agatha
christie"
whom I re-read over and over.
> Another question: a publisher-friend of mine is
looking to reissue some
> out-of-print Highsmiths from the Fifties. He
contacted Penguin to find
> out who has the rights to them and was directed down
a blind alley.
Can
> anyone advise as to whom he should contact?
Could you find out who her agent was?? Perhaps no one does,
public
domain??? Or maybe you can go back and look at some of the
books (check
Hubin for dates of publication) and who the original
publisher was.
(I almost engaged fingers before brain and said "Check Books
in Print"
<g>)
Does anyone care this is the biblio: (lifted from Willetta
Heising)
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
2. Ripley Underground (1970)
3. Ripley's Game (1974)
4. The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980)
5. Ripley Under Water (1992)
Here is the summary from "wire reports" compiled by our local
reporter
regarding Damon and Paltrow "will star in The Talented Mr.
Ripley based
on a Patricia Highsmith novel, says Variety. The story is
about con
artist Tom Ripley, who has been hired by a wealthy American
to remove
his prodigal son in Italy. But on arrival, Mr. Ripley is
smitten with
the son's charmed existence--and his girlfriend. Determined
to keep his
newfound way of life, he murders the son and assumes his
identiy."
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