{"product_id":"9780349004990","title":"Small g: A Summer Idyll : A Virago Modern Classic","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Highsmith, Patricia \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 21\/01\/2016,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780349004990,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAINCompleted 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRickie 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697742053420,"sku":"9780349004990","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780349004990.jpg?v=1722601936","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780349004990","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}