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Scholar-led Evening Discussion

Thursday, July 20 at 7pm

Book-to-Movie Discussion!

Thursday, July 20 at 7pm

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

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How different is the story handled in the book versus the movie? Read and watch and come find out.

Discussion led by Dr. Vara Neverow.

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Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, are passengers on the same train. Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath.

"Some people are better off dead," Bruno remarks, "like your wife and my father, for instance." 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, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.

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