About this title: The Psychologists would call it folie a deux...'Bruno slammed his palms together.' Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch? From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.
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Description: Good. 0140037969 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: penquin books
Date Published: 1983
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Solid book with clean lightly tanning pgs, book shows shelf, edge & corner wear, sticker on back cover, front upper corneres bumped, some scuffing of covers. read more
Description: Like New. With CD! Book in almost Brand New condition. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, Canada
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780140037968ISBN:0140037969
Description: Very Good + A real nice copy that has an extremely light crease on the front side of the wrap alongside the spine and also has a corner crease on the upper front side of the wrap. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780140037968ISBN:0140037969
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780140037968ISBN:0140037969
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780393321982ISBN:0393321983
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"I think this may be a rare occassion of the film being better than the book it is based on.
I love the film so I'm slightly gutted that I disliked the book so much. I think that the problem with the book is that it was over-complicated, whereas the film is fairly straight forward, even though it contains a pretty elaborate murder plot (or plots).
The book is quite short so give it a go if you are interested and used to sticking out slow-going books."
"File this one under: The Books ISN'T Always Better Than the Movie. Though in some ways more "uncompromising" than the Hitchcock film, it is also more "meandering" and "boring." Hitchcock tightened the action, made the characters more interesting and their motivations more clear. Also **spoiler** despite the fact that Guy ends up killing Bruno's father in the book, where Hitchcock goes for the more "Hollywood" ending of having him avoid it, in some ways, Hitchcock's Guy is MORE unsympathetic, in the way that he just drips with entitlement and snobbery, where Highsmith's Guy is tortured by Bruno to the point that she attempts at least to excuse him for the murder."
"I was reading this book while on holiday and then when stopped in a hotel in Montreal, Hitchcock's version showed up (in French) on morning television. I had seen the movie years ago, so it was kinda neat to see the characters I was reading about on screen while they were so fresh in my head. While reading I kept thinking, "Guy, stop this madness!" (which I always think of the good guys drawn into the web of evil while watching film noirs). This book is as it should be. Pretty thrilling ride."
"I actually picked this book up on a whim, when I was browsing in the library. Had never heard of Patricia Highsmith before. I was surprised with this book though, she has a great ability to build interest in characters. How she depicted Bruno often made me uneasy, thinking about what a weird guy he was. Very good book, and I'll defintely be reading more of her work."
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