Patricia Highsmith: This Sweet Sickness, Kartoniert / Broschiert
This Sweet Sickness
- A Virago Modern Classic
- Verlag:
- Little, Brown Book Group, 01/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780349019659
- Artikelnummer:
- 11897283
- Gewicht:
- 254 g
- Maße:
- 198 x 126 mm
- Stärke:
- 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 23.1.2025
- Serie:
- Virago Modern Classics
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
It was jealousy that kept David from sleeping, drove him from a tousled bed out of the dark and silent boarding house to walk the streets...
David Kelsey has an unswerving conviction that life is going to work out for him - if he can just fix the 'Situation'. His one true love, the brilliant, beautiful Annabelle, has married another man. But that doesn't mean she doesn't still love David. Even though she's pregnant with her husband's baby, David is certain she will take him back. Under an alias, he is setting up the perfect 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... An addictively twisted study of obsession from the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley .
Introduced by Sarah Hilary
'The No. 1 Greatest Crime Writer'THE TIMES
' I love Highsmith so much. What a revelation her writing is' GILLIAN FLYNN
'The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM
'To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability' SUNDAY TIMES
Biografie
Patricia Highsmith (geboren am 19.1.1921, Fort Worth/Texas, gestorben 4.2.1995, Locarno, begraben in Tegna/Tessin) wuchs in Texas und New York auf. Studium der Literatur und Zoologie. Erste Kurzgeschichten an der Highschool, erster Lebensunterhalt als Comictexterin, erster Welterfolg 1950 mit ihrem Romanerstling "Zwei Fremde im Zug", dessen Verfilmung durch Alfred Hitchcock sie über Nacht weltberühmt machte.
