Strangers on a Train: A Virago Modern Classic - Couverture rigide

Highsmith, Patricia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0349007276 ISBN 13 : 9780349007274

Editeur : Virago, 2016

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six, where she attended the Julia Richman High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger' and The Times named her no.1 in their list of the greatest ever crime writers. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

Quatrième de couverture :

'A gem... A magnificent suspense' Daily Mail

The psychologists would call it folie a deux...

'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! We murder for each other, see? 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

'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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0349007276
• ISBN 13: 9780349007274
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352