The Grotesque

by Patrick McGrath

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679776215
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/28/1997
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.22(w) x 7.97(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Patrick McGrath is the author of several modern gothic novels, including Asylum and Spider, and two collections of stories. He lives in New York, where he is on the writing faculties of the New School and Princeton University.

What People are Saying About This

John Hawkes

Wonderfully inventive, sinister, macabre yet comic...The Grotesque is high art.