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Sto caricando le informazioni... Strangers on a Train (originale 1950; edizione 1950)di Patricia Highsmith
Informazioni sull'operaSconosciuti in treno di Patricia Highsmith (1950)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I thought this was going to be better, more suspenseful. I didn't care for the characters. I have wanted to read this book for a long time, so when I was challenged to read something off a backlist, this was my choice! It is such a great psychological thriller, showing the guilt of a murderer, albeit a reluctant one. When 2 strangers, Guy Haines and Charles Bruno, meet on a train, and start talking about people they despise, Bruno plants a seed that they should each kill the other person's target. Who would suspect strangers of plotting such a thing? As the story develops, Guy can't deal with the guilt that he unwittingly triggered Bruno to kill Guy's wife, and now is in an untenable position. Bruno continues to threaten Guy, until Guy kills Bruno's father for him. Eerie, twisted story! How does an author so fully establish their trademark in a first book? The tension here is taut, the characters repulsive but compelling, and the multi-perspective psychologies thrilling. It is a testament to the writing that knowing the premise of book didn't affect my enjoyment of the story at all. I was kept on edge, and this book more than her Ripleys made me really question what Highsmith herself was like. Reading her wikipedia page felt not like a surprise revelation but a familiar reacquaintance. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world-where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, and proved her mastery of depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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