Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on a Train
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.
"For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith."—Time
"Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night."—The New Yorker
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921, Patricia Highsmith spent much of her adult life in Switzerland and France. Educated at Barnard where she studied English, Latin, and Greek, she had her first novel, Strangers on a Train, published in 1950 to great commercial success and filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. Despite receiving little recognition in her home country, Highsmith, the author of more than twenty books, has won the O. Henry Memorial Award, The Edgar Allan Poe Award, Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the Award of the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain. She died in Switzerland in 1995 and her literary archives are maintained in Berne.
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Also Available:
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
A Suspension of Mercy
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