Strangers on a train

Buch

Highsmith, Patricia

  • Titel: Strangers on a train : a novel / Patricia Highsmith ; with an introduction by Paula Hawkins
  • Person(en): Highsmith, Patricia [Verfasser*in] ; Hawkins, Paula [Verfasser*in, Einleitungstext]
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Originalsprache: Englisch
  • Umfang: XI, 273 Seiten
  • Erschienen: New York, NY London : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021
  • ISBN/Preis: 978-0-393-35193-4 Broschur : EUR 16.50
  • Anmerkungen: "First published as a Norton paperback 2001, reissued with a new introduction 2021" "Originally published in 1950 by Harper & Brothers, New York, and Cresset Press, London"
  • Signatur: UNTERHALTUNG und KREATIVITÄT > Romane
  • Englisch HIGH Belletristik

Inhalt: "Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, 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, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith's prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life"--