The two faces of January
Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-19951964
Book
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.When Chester MacFarland, an American embezzler, runs into trouble with a Greek policeman in Athens, Rydal Keener, a fellow American offers to provide him with an alibi.
Main title:
The two faces of January / Patricia Highsmith.
Author:
Work:
Imprint:
New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 1964.
Collation:
313 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Film tie-in.First published: 1964."Now a major film"--Cover.
Shelving notes:
34133 0000016194 1 07-10-2014 0 nyctro 08-10-2014 7
ISBN:
9780802122629 (paperback)9780751555875 (pbk)0751555878 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54813.54
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
82741
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | Fiction | HIGH | Available |
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | HIGH | In-transit from Library at the Dock to City Library (Set: 25 Jun 2026) |