Small g

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.

subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments),  Sexual orientation,  Gay men,  Crimes against,  Fiction,  Triangles (Interpersonal relations),  Conspiracies,  American fiction,  Borowitz Collection,  Switzerland, fiction,  Fiction, romance, general,  Fiction, gay,  Interpersonal relations, fiction,  New York Times reviewed,  Gay men, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, lgbtq+, gay

Places: Zurich (Switzerland)

Times: 20th century