
Strangers on a Train: A Virago Modern Classic - Virago Modern Classics (Hardback)
Patricia Highsmith (author), Claire Messud (author of introduction)
£16.99
Hardback
352 Pages
Published: 08/09/2016
Published: 08/09/2016
The psychologists would call it folie a deux ...'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities. 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349007274
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 488 g
Dimensions: 204 x 136 x 29 mm
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To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability * Sunday Times *
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense -- Mark Billingham
The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer . . . A true original in crime fiction and a superb writer * The Times *
One closes most of her books with a feeling that the world is more dangerous than one had ever imagined * New York Times Book Review *
Her novels, with their mysterious non sequiturs, weird pairings and attractions and moments of stifled comedy, have an unearthly sheen all their own . . . Highsmith was a genuine one-off, and her books will haunt you * Daily Telegraph *
I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is -- Gillian Flynn
Two women become entangled in a gothic exit strategy from unhappy marriages * Financial Times *
The sphere of suspense for the story of a strange, parasitic attachment and the unbelievable events which follow * Kirkus Reviews *
A gem . . . A magnificent suspense * Daily Mail *
A tightly-plotted psychological thriller that serves as a masterclass in how it's done
A writer who created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger -- Graham Greene
A tightly-plotted psychological thriller that serves as a masterclass in how it's done -- S. J. Watson
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense -- Mark Billingham
The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer . . . A true original in crime fiction and a superb writer * The Times *
One closes most of her books with a feeling that the world is more dangerous than one had ever imagined * New York Times Book Review *
Her novels, with their mysterious non sequiturs, weird pairings and attractions and moments of stifled comedy, have an unearthly sheen all their own . . . Highsmith was a genuine one-off, and her books will haunt you * Daily Telegraph *
I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is -- Gillian Flynn
Two women become entangled in a gothic exit strategy from unhappy marriages * Financial Times *
The sphere of suspense for the story of a strange, parasitic attachment and the unbelievable events which follow * Kirkus Reviews *
A gem . . . A magnificent suspense * Daily Mail *
A tightly-plotted psychological thriller that serves as a masterclass in how it's done
A writer who created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger -- Graham Greene
A tightly-plotted psychological thriller that serves as a masterclass in how it's done -- S. J. Watson
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Atmospheric, full of tension and insight to the human mind. Seen the Hitchcock film? This beats it hands down.
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