This Sweet Sickness, Patricia Highsmith
This Sweet Sickness, Patricia Highsmith
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This Sweet Sickness

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Narrator: Tony Pasqualini

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2016

Synopsis

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” of being 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.In this riveting tale of a deluded loner, Highsmith reveals her uncanny ability to draw out the secret obsessions that overwhelm the human heart.

About Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was an American author most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. She wrote more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

About Tony Pasqualini

Tony Pasqualini has performed in and directed over a hundred plays on countless stages around the country for forty years. He is one of the founders of the Freehold Theatre and Acting Studio in Seattle as well as a member of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles. Tony has also guest starred on many television shows including The Office, Without a Trace, CSI: NY, Mad Men, Bones, and Frasier.

Reviews

Goodreads review by GTF on June 15, 2021

"This Sweet Sickness" is a satisfactory novel from Patricia Highsmith that explores the dark side of attraction and desire. Highsmith excellently portrays how fixations can become very unhealthy, especially when they involve a love interest in someone who doesn't feel the same way in return. Such fi......more

Goodreads review by Dave on October 18, 2022

The (Less Than) Talented Mr. Ripley (aka Kelsey) Spoilers in here; but read this for October suspense month! At a glance I see not many reviewers agree with me that this is a successful novel by Patricia Highsmith, in the realm of The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Strangers on a Train, but I was thoroughly......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on November 18, 2015

oh god. What a great book. For a little more about this book, you can go here to my reading journal; otherwise, continue. This Sweet Sickness is Highsmith's seventh book and somewhere around page 90 I had to put it down for a day because of the knots forming in my gut. Somehow I just knew that this......more

Quotes

“This Sweet Sickness is, as we’ve come to expect from Patricia Highsmith, an impressive psychological study. Objectively yet compassionately she examines a young chemist who spends his weekends in a make-believe world in which that girl did not marry somebody else: and relentlessly she shows how his rejection of reality leads to disaster and death. The book has the compulsion of truth.” New York Times

“We defy you to put this book down once you have started. Highest rating!” Mystery Digest

“[This] Rorschach of a psychotic personality is a detailed, not a smudged, record of a schizoid’s double vision…and finally the two-way pattern leaves a single trail—for the police.” Kirkus Reviews

“No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying.” Vogue, praise for the author

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