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Strangers on a Train

By Patricia Highsmith

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| Paperback | 9780393321982

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A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout heContinue

A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her career, Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction, unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accuracy, she delighted in creating true sociopaths in the guise of the everyday man or woman. Now, one of her finest works is again in print: Strangers on a Train, Highsmith's first novel and the source for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1953 film. With this novel, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.

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    Review-a-Day Saturday, June 15th, 2002 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith A review by Ann Ellenbecker It's hard to describe the feeling you get upon finishing a Patricia Highsmith novel. You're not sure whether to believe her. However, she ma ... (read full critics)

    powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  • Eric Ruzafa

    First, I want say that this book is easy to read, and you haven’t got to search a lot of vocabulary. For this reason I advise to read strangers in the train. For other hand the books argument is peculiar because it’s a history a few outgoing where one history is introduced in another, but all the ti ... (continue)

    First, I want say that this book is easy to read, and you haven’t got to search a lot of vocabulary. For this reason I advise to read strangers in the train. For other hand the books argument is peculiar because it’s a history a few outgoing where one history is introduced in another, but all the time you know that it’s happening and you can put in order the sequence of the book. Also I recommend this book because since the principle you are intrigued for the events. The main action is a double murder and with this idea there is a game between two personages. In this book the lesson is a war between good and evil. To other, the book is short and in three or four days you can finish it. I got it in medicine library of UAB.

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