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A lost boy seeks Tom Ripley’s protection — and finds a mentor in murder. The Boy Who Followed Ripley — the fourth novel in Patricia Highsmith’s Ripliad, published in 1980 — introduces Frank Pierson: a sixteen-year-old who has killed his father, who idolizes Tom Ripley, and who comes seeking the older man’s guidance.
Highsmith plays her most daring game here: Tom — almost paternal, almost moral — tries to save the boy from becoming himself, even as his own nature pulls them both toward violence. It is the most emotionally complex of the Ripley novels: a disturbing study in corruption, influence, and the terrible intimacy of shared guilt — and the making of a monster.
Fourth in the five-volume sequence — read in order. For Highsmith devotees: the strangest and saddest Ripley — and one of her most psychologically fascinating achievements. Darkness, refracted through an unlikely tenderness — Highsmith’s most unsettling experiment.
He carried a sketchbook into battle — and came home a legend. Brummett Echohawk: Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist by Kristin M. Youngbull is the first book-length biography of one of the most remarkable Native American lives of the twentieth century.
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Brummett T. Echohawk was a Pawnee artist, writer, humorist, actor, and World War II veteran who served with the famed 45th Infantry — the Thunderbirds. This thoroughly researched, ethnohistorical biography follows him from his Pawnee roots through the battlefields of Europe, where he put his artistic talent to work even in the midst of war, and into a rich postwar career as a painter and storyteller who never lost his humor or his heritage.
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Featuring eight of Echohawk’s paintings reproduced in full color, the book reveals a man who moved between worlds with grace: a soldier who counted coup like his grandfather, an artist who preserved Pawnee stories on canvas, a humorist who could light up any room. Youngbull paints an intimate portrait of a veteran, creator, and cultural bridge.
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Published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2015, this is essential reading for anyone interested in Native American history, WWII, Western art, or simply an extraordinary American life.
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