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With a mysterious simplicity of style, Highsmith transforms the neighbors next door into sadistic psychopaths, trapped between the white picket fences of their gardens and the freshly cut lawns. In the darkly satirical, often hilariously biting stories that make up Little Misogynistic Tales, Highsmith subverts our conventional notions of female character, revealing the devastating power of those creatures who once seemed familiar to us—"The Dancer," "The Novelist," "The Silly Girl"—and who destroy themselves and all the men around them. With terse, precise sentences and a ferocious irony, Patricia Highsmith highlights and accentuates the most ridiculous, or most perverse, aspects of the female archetypes she presents, without distorting them too much, so that the resemblance to the model is never lost and she remains instantly recognizable. It is clear that the author shows no bias whatsoever; nor do the men who appear here fare any better.