An edition of Strangers On a Train (1950)

Strangers on a train

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An edition of Strangers On a Train (1950)

Strangers on a train

by and

  • ★★★ ★ 3.67 ·
  • 6 Ratings
  • 61 Want to read
  • 1 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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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
281

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Subjects
Gay murderers, Railroad travel, Murderers, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, American literature, Audio-visual aids, Study and teaching, Readers, English language, High interest-low vocabulary books, Sound recordings for second language learners, Readers for new literates, Study and teaching as a second language, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Murder, Insanity (Law)
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1940's

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Strangers on a Train
1999, Penguin Random House
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Strangers on a Train (Penguin Joint Venture Readers)
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New York

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Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3558.I366 S77 2001, PS3558.I366S77 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
281 p. ;
Number of pages
281

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3945908M
ISBN 10
0393321983
LCCN
2001030821
OCLC/WorldCat
46671174
Library Thing
126353
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15677

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