This Sweet Sickness
Following the national bestseller Selected Stories, this fall brings the republication of a gripping Highsmith classic.In This Sweet Sickness, David Kelsey 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...
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Following the national bestseller Selected Stories, this fall brings the republication of a gripping Highsmith classic.In This Sweet Sickness, David Kelsey 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, David prepares to win her over, whatever it takes.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393323672 (0393323676)
Publish date: October 17th 2002
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
In the dead of night, more snow began to fall, like billions of white, silent tears. This Sweet Sickness was my 13th book by Patricia Highsmith and you would have thought that by now I would know what to expect and would be able to foresee certain themes or twists. The thing is, I can't. One of th...
I love Patricia Highsmith´s descriptions of her totally messed up characters. At first glance they seem to be perfectly ordinary people, until slowly, layer by layer, she reveals the sociopathic and psychopathic nature of her characters. In some respects the main character David Kelsey reminded me...
well, compulsive reading is the key -- i read it all day and didn't stop until the end. her characters often have this fascinating control freakiness about them, and david kelsey is no different. he didn't seem as intelligent as tom ripley, though kelsey is a scientist, and that's usually equated in...
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