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Book SynopsisBY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith''s death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charming tale of love misdirected.
''It has a serenity rarely found in Highsmith''s world'' GEOFFREY ELBORN, GUARDIAN
''What is most remarkable in this novel is the empathy . . . with which Highsmith writes about gay men'' FRANCIS KING, SPECTATOR
''Like Ripley, [Highsmith''s characters] burn in a reader''s memory'' LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
At the ''small g'', a Zurich bar known for its not exclusively gay clientele, the lives of a small community are played out one summer.
Rickie Markwalder is a designer whose lover Petey was brutally murdered. Rickie and his performing dog Lulu are regulars at the bar, as are v
Trade Review
From the first page it is recognizably authentic Highsmith. Perhaps approaching her lesbian novel Carol in tenderness and theme, it has a serenity rarely found in Highsmith's world -- Geoffrey Elborn * Guardian *
Years of producing tight, energetic thrillers has honed down Highsmith's style, and in this book, with its child-like simplicity, is quite wonderfully readable -- Philip Hensher * Mail on Sunday *
The novel is a delight . . . all the more so for its untypically sunny atmosphere * Daily Telegraph *
Small g is a welcome addition to Highsmith's published novels, offering readers an insight into a fascinating aspect of Swiss society and an opportunity to explore Highsmith's final concerns and obsessions
Its superabundance of characters is only one of the elements that give Small g its air of Shakespearean complexity * New York Times Book Review *
What is most remarkable in this novel is the empathy . . . with which Highsmith writes about gay men . . . one can imagine the Small g existing, a piquant mixture of bohemianism and respectability, exactly as Highsmith describes it -- Francis King * Spectator *
Like Ripley, [Highsmith's characters] burn in a reader's memory * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
All the qualities we love about Highsmith's work . . . are here in abundance . . . her characters astonish themselves, and us, by discovering love in the very last places they ever expected to find it * O Magazine *
