by Patricia Highsmith · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582402546
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«Strangers on a Train» is the adapted suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Architect Guy Haines meets Charles Anthony Bruno, a disturbed charmer, on a train. Their conversation turns to a criminal proposal that traps Guy in a web of blackmail, guilt and death, while the psychopathic Bruno imposes his twisted game.
Part of the Penguin Readers series, level 4, in an abridged edition. The original novel was published in 1950 and inspired Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 movie.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language and for young people aged 12 and over.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
