This Sweet Sickness: A Virago Modern Classic - Brossura

Highsmith, Patricia

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ISBN 10: 0349006288 ISBN 13: 9780349006284

Casa editrice: Virago, 2016

Riassunto

Too much love can be a bad thing.

'Highsmith was every bit as deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes, and didn't seem to mind if everyone knew it' J. G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph

David Kelsey has an invincible conviction that life is going to work out just as he has planned it - if he can just fix 'the situation'. His one true love, the brilliant, beautiful Annabelle, has married another man. But that doesn't mean they can't still be friends. And even though she is pregnant with her husband Gerald's baby, that surely doesn't mean she won't one day get back together with David. She still loves him, of that he is certain. David is sure she'll take him back, and, under an alias, is setting up a wonderful home for the two of them in a town close by. And everything is just about going to plan until things take a murderous turn, leaving David a desperate man on the run.

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Recensione:

A cracker... a compellingly creepy novel that foreshadowed much of what Highsmith would explore in The Talented Mr Ripley (Sydney Morning Herald)

A writer who has created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger . . . Miss Highsmith is the poet of apprehension (Graham Greene)

Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense (Mark Billingham)

'Highsmith was every bit as deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes, and didn't seem to mind if everyone knew it' (J. G. Ballard Daily Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

A brilliantly gripping psychological thriller. Too much love can be a bad thing.

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0349006288
• ISBN 13: 9780349006284
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320