Blood and Water and Other Stories - Softcover

Mcgrath, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501125389 ISBN 13: 9781501125386

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2015

Synopsis

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 nightclub is terrorized by a strange libidinous hand; and a young Victorian lady sails to India to find her fiancé Cecil horribly transformed...

About this title

About the Author:

Patrick McGrath is the author of two story collections and eight novels, including Asylum, which was an international bestseller. His novels have been widely translated, and he is also the author of Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now, a collection of novellas. Trauma was shortlisted in the UK for the Costa Novel Award. Spider was filmed by David Cronenberg from McGrath's adaptation. Constance, his most recent novel, was published in 2013. He coedited an influential anthology of short fiction, The New Gothic, and recent nonfiction includes introductions to The Monk, Moby Dick and Barnaby Rudge. Patrick McGrath lives in Manhattan and London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1501125389
• ISBN 13: 9781501125386
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192