This sweet sickness

Patricia Highsmith

earliest edition we have, 1966 W.W. Norton & Co., 2002 282 pages

Le livre de poche -- 7438

David Kelsey is a brilliant young scientist who lives in a cheap boarding house and lives a double life. Every weekend David leaves to spend time with his ailing mother in a nursing home – or at least that's what he tells everyone. In fact David's mother has been dead for years, and David spends his weekends posing as someone else in an effort to woo and win Annabelle, the girl who rejected him years ago. David won't...

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Editions we hold

This Sweet Sickness edition · 2025 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 320 pages · 9780349019659
This Sweet Sickness edition · 2016 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 320 pages · 9780349006284
This Sweet Sickness edition · 2014 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 320 pages · 9780349004716
This Sweet Sickness paperback · 2005 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 311 pages · 9780747574996
This Sweet Sickness edition · 2002 · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 288 pages · 9780393345612
This sweet sickness edition · 2002 · W.W. Norton & Co. · 282 pages
Quella dolce follia edition · 1992 · Bompiani
This sweet sickness paperback · 1972 · Penguin · 250 pages
This sweet sickness. paperback · 1967 · Heinemann · 240 pages · 9780434335084
Ce mal étrange edition · 1966 · [Libraire Générale Française

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