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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
Paperback. Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history. Series: Writer and the City Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 188. Tales of Manhattan Then and Now. Series: Writer and the City Series. 256 pages, map. Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight: 188.
A man is haunted by the memory of his mother 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. In thrusting nineteenth-century New York, a ruthless merchant's sensitive son is denied the love of his life through his father's prejudice against the immigrants flooding into the city - and madness and violence ensue. In the wake of 9/11, a Manhattan psychiatrist treats a ... Read more
A man is haunted by the memory of his mother 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. In thrusting nineteenth-century New York, a ruthless merchant's sensitive son is denied the love of his life through his father's prejudice against the immigrants flooding into the city - and madness and violence ensue. In the wake of 9/11, a Manhattan psychiatrist treats a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Series
Writer and the City Series
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747583721
SKU
V9780747583721
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Ref
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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
'As sharp and haunting as a daguerreotype ... McGrath's prose is clean, lucid and utterly transfixing' Sunday Times 'The best of McGrath's menace is vividly present ... McGrath remains one of the most interesting, and possibly the most consistently original of his generation of British writers' Irish Times 'Like a latter-day Edgar Allan Poe, McGrath probes the insanity ... Read more