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Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
This is a story of self-obsession narrated by the point of view of a psychiatrist, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 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 o ...Show more
Constance by Patrick McGrath
Category: Fiction
The aloof and enigmatic Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan. At a literary party she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Intoxicated by her chilly beauty, Sidney pursues the young woman with restless determination and soon proposes marriage. Constance accepts, and ...Show more
Constance by Patrick McGrath
Category: Fiction
The aloof and enigmatic Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan when she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior, at a literary party. A few weeks later, he proposes marriage and Constance accepts, moving into his dark, book-filled apartment. But Constance is tortured by a ...Show more
Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath
Category: Fiction | Series: Writer and the City Series
Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history.
Ghost Town : Tales of Manhattan then and now (The Writer and the City) by Patrick McGrath
Category: Travel Literature
A vision of New York which has extraordinary scope, stretching back into history and ahead to post-9/11 The first fictional contribution to The Writer and the City series from one of our finest novelists. First published 2005.
Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath
Category: Fiction
A haunting and atmospheric novel from the author of Asylum, Trauma and The Wardrobe Mistress'Let there be no more of this clucking and wheedling. Oh Pa, are you sure? Or- Oh Francis, is this really a good idea? Let me be clear. I am always sure, and it is always a good idea.'An old man is sleeping fitfu ...Show more
Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath
Category: Fiction
___________________________________________ 'This is a wonderful, thrilling novel . . . in Last Days in Cleaver Square McGrath has broken through to new depths of insight and emotion.' JOHN BANVILLE 'McGrath is a conjuror of fine detail . . . a master of the unreliable narrator - the best in the busines ...Show more
Moby Dick by Patrick Patrick (INT); McGrath Herman; McGrath Melville
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers
OCD Answer Book by Dr. Patrick McGrath
Category: Health
At any one time at least five million people in the United States are experiencing the symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a mental disorder defined by recurrent, unwelcome thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) that OCD sufferers feel driven to perform. The OCD Answer ...Show more
Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath
Category: Fiction
A passionate and intoxicating masterpiece from one of Britain's finest novelists, this is McGrath's breakthrough novel. From their childhood, Jack Rathbone has enjoyed the adoration of his sister Gin. When both attend art school in London, it is a painful wrench for Gin to watch Jack fall under the spel ...Show more