Strangers on a train
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Author
Publication
2001 - W.W. Norton, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
70,250 words, Guess
Page Count
281 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivestrangersontrain00high_0
- Internet Archivestrangersontrain00high_227
- ISBN-100393321983
- ISBN-139780393321982
- Goodreads15677
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- Library of Congress Control Number2001030821
- OCLC Control Number46671174
- Better World Books9780393321982
- Open LibraryOL3945908M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3558.I366 S77 2001
- LCCPS3558.I366S77 2001
Description
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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