Small G: A Summer Idyll Vmc

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.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 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 The Novel Is A Delight . . . All The More So For Its Untypically Sunny Atmosphere 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 ObsessionsIts Superabundance Of Characters Is Only One Of The Elements That Give Small G Its Air Of Shakespearean Complexitywhat 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 Itlike Ripley, [Highsmith's Characters] Burn In A Reader's Memoryall 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