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Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now
Patrick McGrath
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Description for Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now
Hardback. In this fictional contribution to T"he Writer and the City" series, Patrick McGrath excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history; a trio of stunning tales from the hand of a master storyteller. Series: Writer and the City Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 120 x 20. Weight in Grams: 288. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
A man is haunted by the memory of his mother standing under a gibbet with a rope round her neck. It is the American War of Independence, and having defied the British forces occupying New York she must pay for her revolutionary activities. But fifty years on her son harbours a festering guilt for his inadvertent part in her downfall. Then, in a nineteenth-century New York of thrusting commercial enterprise, a ruthless merchant's sensitive son is denied the love of his life through his father's prejudice against the immigrants then flooding into the city - and madness and violence ensue. ... Read more
A man is haunted by the memory of his mother standing under a gibbet with a rope round her neck. It is the American War of Independence, and having defied the British forces occupying New York she must pay for her revolutionary activities. But fifty years on her son harbours a festering guilt for his inadvertent part in her downfall. Then, in a nineteenth-century New York of thrusting commercial enterprise, a ruthless merchant's sensitive son is denied the love of his life through his father's prejudice against the immigrants then flooding into the city - and madness and violence ensue. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Writer and the City Series
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747574293
SKU
KAC0000460
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Patrick McGrath
Patrick McGrath is the author of a short story collection, Blood and Water and Other Tales, and six novels: The Grotesque, Spider, Dr Haggard's Disease, Asylum, Martha Peake and most recently Port Mungo, which was published by Bloomsbury. He lives in London and New York. Spider was made into a film in 2002 by acclaimed director David Cronenberg.
Reviews for Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now
'Fiction of a depth and power we hardly hope to encounter any more' Tobias Wolff on PORT MUNGO 'His prose, sinuous, savoury and sly, is a delight' Graham Swift