Little Tales of Misogyny
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'These little tales are tremendous fun, glorious hand grenades lobbed at the reader by a gleeful, cackling Patricia Highsmith' Dan Rhodes Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbours into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In these darkly satirical, often hilarious, sketches you'll meet seemingly familiar women with the power to destroy both themselves and the men around them. 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times
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I loved this book. Patricia Highsmith has a was of writing short stories with dark and twisted humor. Each story has a twisted at the end and I could not put the book down. I will defiantly be reading more of her books.
I hadn't heard of this author before, but a quick look at her publication list shows I probably should have... The Talented Mr Ripley being the obvious one.
This is an amusing book of little stories - she certainly covers all the bases of the women we are meant to hate: the perfectionist, the mother-in-law, the prude, the victim etc etc, and although clearly dated stories, if you put it in the context of when it was written (first published 1974) they were probably viewed as scandalous. Some of these stories are only two pages long, and only outline a quick and basic story, others are more in depth, but all are a short read.
