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The two faces of January

  • Patricia Highsmith

4.00

2 ratings

Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane 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.

Genres

  • Fiction in English
  • Lesbian authors
  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
  • Fiction
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Fiction, suspense
  • Criminals
  • Americans
  • Excavations (Archaeology)
  • Fiction, thrillers, general
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Keener, rydal (fictitious character), fiction
  • Fiction, thrillers, suspense
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About the author

  • Patricia Highsmith

    19 Jan 1921 - 4 Feb 1995

    4.07

    102 ratings · 370 works

Editions

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    Diogenes Verlag

    January 1, 1974

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    Penguin, Penguin Books

    1988

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    Large print edition.

    Isis

    2015

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    Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

    2014

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Little, Brown Book Group Limited

2016

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    2014

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    Hamlyn Paperbacks

    1978

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    Atlantic Monthly Press

    January 21, 1994

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    New Ed edition

    William Heinemann Ltd, Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

    November 1968

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    Hamlyn, Littlehampton Book Services Ltd

    1978

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    LGF

    May 1, 1994

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    Atlantic Monthly Press, Distributed by Little, Brown

    1988

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    Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

    2014

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    Arrow Books Ltd

    December 12, 1985

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    Arrow Books Ltd

    December 12, 1985

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    Calmann-Lévy

    1964

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    Heinemann

    1964

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    Heinemann

    1964

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    [1st ed. in the U. S. A.]

    Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday

    1964

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    [Librairie Générale Française]

    1968