Online
Keep Me in Suspense Book Group
Saturday, June 12, 2021 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Join us for an online book group discussion of this month’s title, The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith.
Read at your own pace and then join us at 2:30, June 12, for a lively digital discussion. A link will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your library card one day prior to the event.
You can request a print book group set copy be sent to your preferred Richland Library pickup location by emailing Chantal Wilson or Janet Hatch.
"Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath. Here, in the first Ripley novel, we are introduced to suave Tom Ripley, a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley's fascination with Dickie's debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie's ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for murder and self-invention is chronicled in four subsequent Ripley novels." ~Provided by the publisher
Keep Me in Suspense Book Group meets the second Saturday of every month from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.