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 the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he’ll murder Haines’s wife if Haines will murder Bruno’s father. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes.
I listened to this book on Libby, so I was shocked to find that the book is only 288 pages. This felt like it took FOREVER. If you are spoiled by today's books where the lines are snappy and there is a cliffhanger at the end of every chapter, you'll be disappointed in this book. Written in 1950, this book has a lot of boring middle. It's about the relationship between two men. It's more about the feelings of guilt, fear, excitement, anxiety, and pride of committing a murder and less about the murder itself. It's a classic, so I won't say not to read it, just don't have expectations of today's writing.
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