Strangers on a train
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"For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith." —Time
The world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her debut, Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. "Some people are better off dead," Bruno remarks, "like your wife and my father, for instance." As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.
The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.
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| Grouping Title | strangers on a train |
| Grouping Author | patricia highsmith |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2024-12-07 18:37:39PM |
| Last Indexed | 2024-12-07 02:20:22AM |
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"For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith." —Time
The world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her debut, Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. "Some people are better off dead," Bruno remarks, "like your wife and my father, for instance." As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.
The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.
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9780393344691
9780393351934
9781504647595
9781982471262
Central
Rio Linda
Sylvan Oaks
2015
2016
W. W. Norton & Company
W.W. Norton
Fiction
Murderers -- Fiction
Mystery fiction
Psychological fiction
Psychological fiction -- Fiction
Railroad travel -- Fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Strangers on a Train [electronic resource] / Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on a train / Patricia Highsmith
Literature
Murderers
Mystery
Psychological fiction
Railroad travel
Suspense
Thriller
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