An edition of Strangers On a Train (1950)

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An edition of Strangers On a Train (1950)

Strangers on a Train

  • 3.7 (6 ratings) ·
  • 63 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 13 Have read

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.

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English
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Cover of: Strangers on a train
Strangers on a train
2001, W.W. Norton
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Cover of: Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train
1999, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Strangers on a Train (Penguin Joint Venture Readers)
Strangers on a Train (Penguin Joint Venture Readers)
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Library of Congress
PS3558.I366, PS3558.I366 S77 1999

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28426510M
Internet Archive
strangersontrain0000high
ISBN 13
9780099283072
Wikidata
Q107230193

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