Blood and Water and Other Stories
Patrick Mcgrath
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Dark, unnerving and wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath's acclaimed short stories deal in the bizarre, the erotic and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl finds a delirious, dying explorer from the Congo at the bottom of her back garden; a night-club is terrorized by a strange libidinous hand; and a young Victorian lady sails to India to find her fiance Cecil horribly transformed...
Product Details
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publish Date | August 18, 2015 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Digital (delivered electronically) |
| EAN/UPC | 9781501125393 |
About the Author
Patrick McGrath is the author of several modern gothic novels, including Asylum and Spider, and two collections of stories. He lives in New York, where he is on the writing faculties of the New School and Princeton University.
Reviews
"His prose, sinuous, savoury and sly, is a delight."
"Electrically unearthing the psychotic underside, Patrick McGrath's stories are brilliant... You believe every word."
Patrick McGrath's stories are a treat... evoked with a perfect blend of affection and spookery, morbidity and hilarity."
"Ancient Southern Plantations, isolated manor houses, places where ghosts like to lurk... the result is fiction that can be as powerful as it is strange."
"An imaginative collection... Opening with the unforgettable "Angel", McGrath's accessibility and flair for the absurd provide us with a palatable blend of humour and creepiness."
"Electrically unearthing the psychotic underside, Patrick McGrath's stories are brilliant... You believe every word."
Patrick McGrath's stories are a treat... evoked with a perfect blend of affection and spookery, morbidity and hilarity."
"Ancient Southern Plantations, isolated manor houses, places where ghosts like to lurk... the result is fiction that can be as powerful as it is strange."
"An imaginative collection... Opening with the unforgettable "Angel", McGrath's accessibility and flair for the absurd provide us with a palatable blend of humour and creepiness."
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