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Little Tales of Misogyny

Patricia Highsmith

1975·119 pages

Crime Literary Fiction

classics short stories

Nowhere is Patricia Highsmith more edgy than in these mordantly hilarious sketches that make up Little Tales of Misogyny. Here you'll meet seemingly familiar women with the power to destroy both themselves and the men around them. In these stories Highsmith is at her most scathing as she draws out the mystery and menace of her once ordinary subject.

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Little Tales of Misogyny

Patricia Highsmith

Year

1975

Pages

119

Crime Literary Fiction Mystery

Tags

classics short stories

Description

Nowhere is Patricia Highsmith more edgy than in these mordantly hilarious sketches that make up Little Tales of Misogyny. Here you'll meet seemingly familiar women with the power to destroy both themselves and the men around them. In these stories Highsmith is at her most scathing as she draws out the mystery and menace of her once ordinary subject.

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