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The Two Faces of January Patricia Highsmith

The Two Faces of January By Patricia Highsmith

The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith


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Summary

Patricia Highsmith's classic novel of psychological suspense now a major film starring Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst

The Two Faces of January Summary

The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith

Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarland is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined.

Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the author of The Talented Mr Ripley.

Now a major film starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac (Drive, Inside Llewelyn Davis). This special edition includes a foreword by director and screenwriter Hossein Amini.

The Two Faces of January Reviews

An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel. -- Anthony Boucher * The New York Times *
Shifts of ground stand metaphor for shifts in relationship; psychology is beautifully interleaved with a gritty genius loci * Library Journal *
With fantastic pace and mounting tension the plot propels you into a nail-biting game of cat-and-mouse. -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *
Suspenseful and evocative * Stylist *

About Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six, where she attended the Julia Richman High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger' and The Times named her no.1 in their list of the greatest ever crime writers. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

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GOR005720697
9780751555875
0751555878
The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
20140410
320
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