Little Tales of Misogyny

Name: Little Tales of Misogyny
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Patricia Highsmith
ISBN: 9780393323375

Patricia Highsmith

17/08/2002
W. W. Norton & Company

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Little Tales of Misogyny par Patricia Highsmith

Résumé

Biographie de l'auteur Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories. Présentation de l'éditeur With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In the darkly satiric, often mordantly hilarious sketches that make up Little Tales of Misogyny, Highsmith upsets our conventional notions of female character, revealing the devastating power of these once familiar creatures--"The Dancer," "The Female Novelist," "The Prude"--who destroy both themselves and the men around them. This work attests to Highsmith's reputation as "the poet of apprehension" (Graham Greene).