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1 gen 1995 · Small G: A Summer Idyll. Small G. : Patricia Highsmith. Penguin, 1996 - Fiction - 263 pages. This novel, set in Zurich, is centred around a group of characters who frequent a gay bar. It opens with the violent murder of a young man and follows the life of his middle-aged lover as he tries to continue his design business, cope with his grief and ...
17 giu 2005 · Accompanied by his small dog, Lulu, Rickie haunts a local bar called Jakob's, identified in guidebooks with a "small g" (for gay), hanging out with acquaintances. The bar draws a mixed crowd, most of whom are in love with people they shouldn't be (a familiar Highsmith theme).
17 giu 2005 · Published in paperback for the first time in America, Small g is at once an exorcism of Highsmith's literary demons and a revelatory capstone to a wholly remarkable career. It is a delightfully incantatory work that, in the tradition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, shows us how bizarre and unpredictable love can be. The last novel ...
17 giu 2005 · Small g: A Summer Idyll - Kindle edition by Highsmith, Patricia. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Small g: A Summer Idyll.
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Since I finally discovered Patricia Highsmith, I've read six of her books, including Small g: A Summer Idyll, originally published in 1995. I've got mix emotions about her books. I can't say I 'like' her books, but there is something about her style and story-telling that draws me in and keeps me reading.
21 gen 2016 · 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.
Jakob's restaurant known as the small g, was a meeting place, a home from home for the sexually undecided, a pocket of Bohemia in pin-striped Zurich. Here intrigues hatched, gossip flourished and romance found its chance.
