Small g
Subtitle: a summer idyll
By: Patricia Highsmith
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780393059236; 9780393327038
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Bars (Drinking establishments); Sexual orientation; Gay men; Conspiracies; Crimes against; Fiction
Description: In unmistakable Highsmithian fashion, Small g, Patricia Highsmith's final novel, opens near a seedy Zurich bar with the brutal murder of Petey Ritter. Unraveling the vagaries of love, sexuality, jealousy, and death, Highsmith weaves a mystery both hilarious and astonishing, a classic fairy tale executed with a characteristic penchant for darkness. Published in paperback for the first time in America, Small g is at once an exorcism of Highsmith's literary demons and a revelatory capstone to a wholly remarkable career. It is a delightfully incantatory work that, in the tradition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, shows us how bizarre and unpredictable love can be.