Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith
Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith
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Strangers on a Train

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2015

Synopsis

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.

About Patricia Highsmith

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.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on November 03, 2022

After Eight Perfect Murders and rewatching Hitchcock’s classic and my favorite comedy version of Throw Momma from train ( Devito was so brilliant, if you haven’t watched it, I highly recommend it) I decided to read the original story that inspired those brilliant movies. Overall: the thrilling idea......more

Goodreads review by Delee on January 07, 2018

When I was in my 20s- living in Toronto and traveling on the train to visit my parents 4 hours away- I always thought there was nothing worse than trying to read my book while having some annoying fellow passenger try to start a conversation...but then I watched Alfred Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRA......more

Goodreads review by Jayme on August 17, 2023

This was Patricia Highsmith’s first novel, initially published in 1950, and most often credited as being the first “Murder Swap” novel! It inspired the Alfred Hitchcock movie, by the same name but if you THINK you know this story, because you watched the movie, you don’t! Mr. Hitchcock actually chang......more

Goodreads review by Gabriel on December 06, 2021

Patricia Highsmith es considerada la maestra del suspense. Y no es para menos la verdad, lo tiene merecidísimo ya que logra (siendo este su primer libro publicado), una atmósfera tremendamente opresiva e inquietante en la medida en que te vas sumergiendo en la mente de los dos protagonistas de esta......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on February 05, 2023

Architect Guy Haines is on a train to Texas to see his estranged wife Miriam to discuss their divorce. Before long Charles Bruno, a rich n'er do well, sits down opposite him. Haines talks about his problems with Miriam and Bruno talks about his hatred for his father. Before long Bruno makes a sugges......more

Quotes

“For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there’s no one like Patricia Highsmith.” Time

“A book that still has the power to shock seventy years later. That power comes through in Bronson Pinchot’s narration. His voice conveys the requisite pitch of menace and malice, at once impulsive and premeditated, as well as the sly humor that was a characteristic of so much of Highsmith’s fiction.” New York Times Book Review (audio review)

“A moody and disturbing excavation of guilty paranoia.” Wall Street Journal

“Strangers on a Train is a moral-vertigo thriller: Crime and Punishment for a post-atomic age.” Los Angeles Times

“It is a truly gripping murder story. And yet, the psychological terror of the book is informed by the dual psychosis of its main characters.” New York Times Book Review

“An incredible study of psychological torture and how fine the membrane is between normality and the underlying darkness.” Tana French, New York Times bestselling author

“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, New York Times bestsellingauthor

Awards

  • New York Times Book Review pick
  • New York Times pick
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