Strangers on a Train

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, 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. 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.

The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, and proved her mastery of depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.

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Strangers on a Train

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, 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. 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.

The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, and proved her mastery of depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.

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Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

Narrated by Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged — 9 hours, 42 minutes

Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith

Narrated by Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged — 9 hours, 42 minutes

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Overview

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, 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. 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.

The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, and proved her mastery of depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.


Editorial Reviews

Time

For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith.

New Yorker

Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.

From the Publisher

"An incredible study of psychological torture and how fine the membrane is between normality and the underlying darkness."— Tana French

"Strangers on a Train is a moral-vertigo thriller: Crime and Punishment for a post-atomic age."— Tom Nolan The Los Angeles Times

"Strangers on a Train 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

"A moody and disturbing excavation of guilty paranoia…Strangers on a Train was her debut novel, but [Highsmith's] sense of anxious foreboding was already fully formed."— Leonard Cassuto Wall Street Journal

"Unfathomably great."— Errol Morris

"One is held by an evil kind of suspense…a rarely perceptive study in criminal psychology."— New York Herald Tribune

Product Details

BN ID: 2940169868982
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date: 07/07/2015
Edition description: Unabridged
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