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Strangers on a Train (1950) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith about two men whose lives become entangled after one of them proposes they "trade" murders. It was adapted as a film in 1951 by director Alfred Hitchcock and again in 1969 by Robert Sparr.
In Strangers on a Train, she examines the very complex relationship between two men, strangers before they had that fateful meeting on the train, but whose lives afterward become inescapably interwined.
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Strangers on a Train (1950) is a suspense thriller by Patricia Highsmith, based on the premise that two strangers swap murders. The novel has been adapted multiple times, most famously by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 film.
Jan 19, 2021 · 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 ...
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Jun 24, 2021 · From the moment that Bruno decides that he should kill Guy's wife and that Guy kills Bruno's father, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities. Originally published: London : Cresset Press, 1950.
Jan 1, 1976 · Strangers on a Train. Patricia Highsmith. 4.22. 2,606 ratings169 reviews. The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.
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' Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Highsmith for the next one hundred years.' —Paula Hawkins, Strangers on a Train, A Novel, Patricia Highsmith, Paula Hawkins, 9780393351934
