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Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train 1

A Virago Modern Classic

by Patricia Highsmith
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/11/2016
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In this mesmerizing novel] . . . not to be recommended for the weak-minded and impressionable (Washington Post), we encounter Guy Haines, a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, and Charles Anthony Bruno, a conniving psychopath who manipulates a chance encounter with Guy into a sadistic plot to swap murders. Some people are better off dead, says Bruno, like your wife and my father, for instance. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy becomes trapped in Patricia Highsmith s perilous world, where under the right circumstances anyone is capable of murder. Still her most iconic novel, Strangers on a Train elicits the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings (Time) and the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life."
ISBN:
9780349007274
9780349007274
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-11-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
199x133x30mm
Weight:
0.49kg
Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six, where she attended the Julia Richman High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer.

Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella.

Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger' and The Times named her no.1 in their list of the greatest ever crime writers. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

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Chosen for my bookclub, it was the 5th Highsmith I'd read. We had a tremendous discussion over Zoom, all thought it a great book. But disturbing and claustrophobic. Like so many of her others, eg Ripley trilogy. Fabulous atmosphere and writing. But disturbing...

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