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The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia Highsmith
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Read by Michael HaydenSix cassettes / approx. 10 hoursThe chilling crime fiction classic--now a major motion picture from Paramount, starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, and Jude Law, written and directed by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient), and produced by Sydney Pollack.In Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith created the perfect criminal.  In The Talented Mr. Ripley, circumstances and opportunities transform him from a petty perpetrator of fraud into a suave, agreeable, and totally amoral artist of crime, who will stop at nothing--certainly not a single murder--to get what he desires.
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