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Strangers on a Train

✍ Scribed by Patricia Highsmith

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2021
Tongue
en-US
Weight
411 KB
Edition
(2021)
Category
Fiction
City
New York
ISBN
0393867331

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✦ Synopsis

"Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb...We will likely be reading Patricia Highsmith for the next one hundred years." --Paula Hawkins

Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he'll murder Haines's wife if Haines will murder Bruno's father. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith's perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith's prolific career, proving her a...

✦ Subjects

Murderers -- Fiction

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