Strangers on a Train - by Patricia Highsmith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><em>Strangers on a Train</em> has lost none of its power to disturb...We will likely be reading Patricia Highsmith for the next one hundred years. --Paula Hawkins<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, <em>Strangers on a Train</em>, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he'll murder Haines's wife if Haines will murder Bruno's father. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith's perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film, <em>Strangers on a Train</em> launched Highsmith's prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>Strangers on a Train</em> is a moral-vertigo thriller: <em>Crime and Punishment</em> for a post-atomic age.--Tom Nolan "The Los Angeles Times"<br><br><em>Strangers on a Train</em> is filled with paranoia and anxiety, and through its twists and turns, we, like poor Guy Haines, are also drawn into psychopath Bruno's web.--Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes<br><br>A moody and disturbing excavation of guilty paranoia...<em>Strangers on a Train</em> was her debut novel, but [Highsmith's] sense of anxious foreboding was already fully formed.--Leonard Cassuto "Wall Street Journal"<br><br>One is held by an evil kind of suspense...a rarely perceptive study in criminal psychology.-- "New York Herald Tribune"<br><br>An incredible study of psychological torture and how fine the membrane is between normality and the underlying darkness.--Tana French<br><br>Unfathomably great.--Errol Morris<br>
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