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This sweet sickness

This sweet sickness

by Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Hilary

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)Married womenFictionFiction, psychologicalFiction, suspense
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This Sweet Sickness

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David Kelsey is a brilliant young scientist who lives in a cheap boarding house and lives a double life. Every weekend David leaves to spend time with his ailing mother in a nursing home – or at least that's what he tells everyone. In fact David's mother has been dead for years, and David spends his weekends posing as someone else in an effort to woo and win Annabelle, the girl who rejected him years ago. David won't take no for an answer, and hi obsession with Annabelle will drive him further and further into darkness and crime.

Themes & subjects

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)Married womenFictionFiction, psychologicalFiction, suspenseFiction, thrillers, general

About the author

Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith

19 Jan 1921 – 4 Feb 1995

Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene. Her first novel, *Strangers on a Train*, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the Alfred Hitchcock …

Authors

Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Hilary

Pages

256

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

17

Languages

English, French, Italian

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

ISBN

9780349019659

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