This Sweet Sickness

by Patricia Highsmith

Overview

In This Sweet Sickness, Patricia Highsmith, in her own inimitable fashion, has created a complex psychological tale as suspenseful as The Talented Mr. Ripley.

David Kelsey, a young scientist, has an unyielding conviction that life will turn out all right for him; he just has to fix the Situation: he is in love with a married woman. Obsessed with Annabelle and the life he has imagined for them—including the fully furnished cabin he maintains for her—David prepares to win her over, whatever it takes. In this riveting tale of a deluded loner, Highsmith reveals her uncanny ability to draw out the secret obsessions that overwhelm the human heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393323672
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/17/2002
Edition description:	REISSUE
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	361,475
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

Date of Birth:

January 19, 1921

Date of Death:

February 4, 1995

Place of Birth:

Fort Worth, Texas

Place of Death:

Locarno, Switzerland

Education:

B.A., Barnard College, 1942

Editorial Reviews

"Terrific book, very wry humor, and a great unreliable narrator."

Sarah Hilary

"Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing…bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night."

The New Yorker

[Highsmith] is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre than are Dostoevsky,Faulkner and Camus.
—Los Angeles Times

Joan Smith