Little Tales of Misogyny: A Virago Modern Classic

by Patricia Highsmith

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

• ISBN10: 0349004935
• ISBN13: 9780349004938
• Publish Date: 29 January 2015 (first published 7 November 1977)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 144
• Language: English

Reviews

[Cameron Trost]

In this collection, Patricia Highsmith offers us seventeen very short stories about women as victims or perpetrators of unpleasantness, stretching from "The Middle-Class Housewife" to "The Fully Licensed Whore, or, the Wife". Most of these stories are outdated, although that probably depends on what kind of family or community you live in, and so are interesting from a sociological point of view. There are some colourful characters and gruesome endings but not enough kick and definitely not enough twists for this reader's tastes...and we know Highsmith had what it takes to write a killer tale with a nasty twist at the end. Worth a browse if you find a copy at the library or pick one up for cheap somewhere but Patricia Highsmith has plenty of much better work to her name.