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Strangers on a Train by Highsmith, Patricia is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley , more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her career, Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction, unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accuracy, she delighted in creating true sociopaths in the guise of the everyday man or woman. Now, one of her finest works is again in print: Strangers on a Train , Highsmith's first novel and the source for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1953 film. With this novel, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life. From Library Journal From the I can't believe this is out of print department comes Highsmith's white-knuckler and the basis of the Hitchcock film of the same name. With this, her first novel, Highsmith set the pattern she would follow in later books, introducing sociopaths who are so subtle they can pa

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Author
Highsmith, Patricia
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Published
1950
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Thriller, Thrillers, Fiction
Rating
3.82 / 5 (10,121 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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