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Strangers on a Train

By Patricia Highsmith

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2001
ISBN
0393321983, 9780393321982
LCC
PS3558.I366 S77 2001
Open Library ID
OL3945908M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
693 kB (709644 bytes)
Pages
138\138
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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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