Author : Patricia Highsmith
Release : 2016-01-21
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Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 990/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Small G: a Summer Idyll by : Patricia Highsmith

Download or read book Small G: a Summer Idyll written by Patricia Highsmith. This book was released on 2016-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 vindictive Renate, a seamstress, and her teenage apprentice Luisa. Into their lives comes Teddie, impressionable and beautiful, and a catalyst for the series of events that will change everything. Patricia Highsmith's final novel is an intricate exploration of love and sexuality, the depths of spite and the triumph of human kindness. It is a work that, in the tradition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, shows us how bizarre and unpredictable love can be. Small g, in the words of her biographer Andrew Wilson, is an 'extended fairy tale suggesting that...happiness is precarious and...romance should be embraced.'