Strangers on a Train

by Patricia Highsmith, Evgeniya Alekseeva (Translator)

Overview

V poezde vstrechayutsya dva sovershenno neznakomyh cheloveka. Oni vmeste uzhinayut, boltayut, vypivayut. I tut odin iz nih priznaetsya, chto uzhe davno vynashivaet mysl' ob ideal'nom prestuplenii. On znaet, kak mozhno sovershit' ubijstvo, da tak, chto nikto ne podkopaetsya. Vtoromu passazhiru ehta ideya kazhetsya dikoj, da i sam poputchik emu ne slishkom nravitsya. Na sleduyushchee utro vtoroj passazhir skhodit s poez da, i vcherashnij razgovor nachinaet emu kazat'sya lish' durnym snom. No mahovik prestupleniya uzhe zapushchen... Roman "Neznakomcy v poezde", stavshij klassikoj zhanra psihologicheskogo detektiva, byl ehkranizirovan Al'fredom Hichkokom v 1950 godu, s Farli Grejndzherom i Robertom Uokerom v glavnyh rolyah.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785389114296
Publisher:	Azbooka
Publication date:	07/24/2024
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	596 KB
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

Date of Birth:

January 19, 1921

Date of Death:

February 4, 1995

Place of Birth:

Fort Worth, Texas

Place of Death:

Locarno, Switzerland

Education:

B.A., Barnard College, 1942

Editorial Reviews

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.

New Yorker

From the I can't believe this is out of print department comes Highsmith's white-knuckler and the basis of the Hitchcock film of the same name. With this, her first novel, Highsmith set the pattern she would follow in later books, introducing sociopaths who are so subtle they can pass unnoticed in the world around them. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

"Strangers on a Train is filled with paranoia and anxiety, and through its twists and turns, we, like poor Guy Haines, are also drawn into psychopath Bruno's web."

Sarah Pinborough

"Unfathomably great."

Errol Morris

"Strangers on a Train is a moral-vertigo thriller: Crime and Punishment for a post-atomic age."

The Los Angeles Times - Tom Nolan

"A moody and disturbing excavation of guilty paranoia…Strangers on a Train was her debut novel, but [Highsmith's] sense of anxious foreboding was already fully formed."

Wall Street Journal - Leonard Cassuto

"One is held by an evil kind of suspense…a rarely perceptive study in criminal psychology."

New York Herald Tribune

"An incredible study of psychological torture and how fine the membrane is between normality and the underlying darkness."

Tana French