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The past catches up with Tom Ripley — at last, and all at once. Ripley Under Water — the fifth and final novel in Patricia Highsmith’s Ripliad, published in 1991 — finds Tom’s perfect French life threatened when an American couple arrives asking questions about the disappearances Tom left behind decades ago.
Highsmith’s farewell to her greatest creation is taut and elegiac: Tom older and more vulnerable, yet still lethally resourceful — defending his paradise with the old brilliance and the old ruthlessness. The final pages are among the most haunting in all crime fiction: a monster, almost mourned, slipping one last time beneath the surface.
Concludes the five-volume Ripliad — read in order from The Talented Mr. Ripley. For thriller readers: the end of one of literature’s great journeys into the dark — and a farewell worthy of fiction’s most charming sociopath: Tom Ripley, at last submerged.
The author of the New York Times bestseller Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar returns with a new collection of painfully funny essays. In When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments, Kelly Oxford mines her most mortifying experiences — parenting disasters, social catastrophes, technology betrayals, and dating mishaps — for comedy gold.
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Oxford’s genius is her fearless honesty: she never sanitizes her worst moments, and she finds the universal absurdity in each one. The result is a book that feels less like reading and more like laughing with a brutally funny friend who has survived every embarrassment you have — and a few you haven’t.
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A national bestseller praised as “hilarious and fearless,” this is the perfect read for anyone who has ever felt the universe conspiring against them — and a reminder that our worst moments often make our best stories. Permission to laugh at your own disasters: granted.
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