This Sweet Sickness

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

About the author

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Highsmith
• Assisted by: Sarah Hilary (Introduction), Hilary Sarah (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9780349019659
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01965-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Suspense, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Family life fiction, Crime and mystery fiction