The Grotesque

MCGRATH,PATRICK

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Spider

What is wrong with Dr Edward Haggard? Is it a passionate love for the wife of the senior pathologist or is it something simpler? Is it a broken heart or is it Spike - the steel pin that holds his fractured hip together? By the author of "Spider" and "The Grotesque".

Dr. Haggard's Disease

Penguin Putnam~trade

Asylum

As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair...

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Random House]

GOTHIC FICTIONThese stories are taken from: Blood and Water. Originally published: New York : Poseidon, c1988

'''The Angel'' and Other Stories (Penguin 60s)'

Penguin

Written specifically for the primary care physician, this practical management guide focuses on the biological and behavioral problems most frequently encountered in primary care. The discussions are formatted to approximate the procedure physicians typically follow when presented with a child patient and cover problems in order of prevalence, uniquely suiting this work as a diagnostic and management guide. Each section describes the problem and its frequency as well as the strategies used to arrive at a diagnosis, and then scientifically evaluates the evidence supporting suggested management strategies. Common behavior disorders, for which primary care physicians often receive little training, are treated extensively, as are controversies in nutrition and preventive health care.

Primary Medical Care of Children and Adolescents

Business & Money

Feldman, William

Rosser, Walter W.

Marketing & Sales

Oxford University Press

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...

Blood & Water & Othr

Ballantine Books

This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Master storyteller Patrick McGrath--author of the critically acclaimed novel Asylum and a finalist for England's prestigious Whitbread Prize for fiction--once again spins a hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty. Set among the teeming streets and desolate wharves of Hogarth's London, then shifting to the powder-keg colony of Massachusetts Bay, Martha Peake envelops the reader in a world on the brink of revolution, and introduces us to a flame-haired heroine who will live in the imagination long after the last page is turned. Settled with our narrator beside a crackling fire, we hear of the poet and smuggler Harry Peake--how Harry lost his wife, Grace, in a tragic fire that left him horribly disfigured; how he made a living displaying his deformed spine in the alehouses of eighteenth-century London; and how his only solace was his devoted daughter, Martha, who inherited all of his fire but none of his passion for cheap gin. As the drink eats away at Harry's soul, it opens ancient wounds; when he commits one final act of unspeakable brutality, Martha, fearing for her life, must flee for the American colonies. Once safely on America's shores, Martha immerses herself in the passions of smoldering rebellion. But even in this land of new beginnings, she is unable to escape the past. Caught up in a web of betrayals, she redeems herself with one final, unforgettable act of courage. Superbly plotted and wholly absorbing, Martha Peake is an edge-of-your-seat shocker that is crafted with the psychological precision Patrick McGrath's fans have come to expect. A writer whose novels The New York Times Book Review has called both "mesmerizing" and "brilliant," McGrath applies his remarkable imaginative powers to a fresh and broad historical canvas. Martha Peake is the poignant, often disturbing tale of a child fighting free of a father's twisted love, and of the colonists' struggle to free themselves from a smothering homeland. It is Patrick McGrath's finest novel yet.

Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution

United States

When Ambrose Tree is summoned by his ancient uncle to the brooding mansion Drogo Hall, he suspects it’s to hear the old man’s dying words and then collect a sizable inheritance. He has no idea he is about to learn the bizarre story of Harry Peake, Cornish smuggler turned poet who became a monster capable of the most horrifying acts. Or that he’s about to become psychologically enmeshed in the riveting life of Harry’s daughter, Martha, who flees her father for colonial America where she becomes a heroic figure in the revolution against England. Or that he himself has a crucial role to play in this mesmerizing tale as it rushes headlong and hauntingly toward its powerful climax. Martha Peake is a spellbinding alloy of Gothic mystery and historical romance.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Vintage

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The Grotesque

Spider

Dr. Haggard's Disease

Asylum

'''The Angel'' and Other Stories (Penguin 60s)'

Primary Medical Care of Children and Adolescents

Blood & Water & Othr

The Grotesque

Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution

Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution