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Blood and Water and Other Stories
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Blood and Water and Other Stories
Author(s): Patrick Mcgrath
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...
Review(s):
"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."
ISBN: 9781501125386
Author(s): Patrick Mcgrath
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...
Review(s):
"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."
ISBN: 9781501125386