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Angel and Other Storiesby Patrick McGrathISBN 0146000080 (0-14-600008-0)
Hardcover, Northwestern University Press
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Asylumby Patrick McGrathISBN 0140258221 (0-14-025822-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Blood and Waterby Patrick McGrathISBN 0140110054 (0-14-011005-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Blood and Water: And Other Talesby Patrick McGrathISBN 0140157999 (0-14-015799-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Dr. Haggard's Diseaseby Patrick McGrathISBN 0140146431 (0-14-014643-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Grotesqueby Patrick McGrathISBN 0140126538 (0-14-012653-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Lewis and Clark Expeditionby Patrick McGrathISBN 0382098994 (0-382-09899-4)
Softcover, Silver Burdett Pr
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The Lime Twig, Second Skin, Travestyby Patrick McGrathISBN 0140189823 (0-14-018982-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Martha Peake : A Novel of the Revolutionby Patrick McGrathISBN 0375701311 (0-375-70131-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Martha Peake'Book summary:"It is a black art, the writing of a history, is it not?" So begins Martha Peake, a gripping narrative that takes the reader back to London and America during the revolutionary epoch of the 1770s. Patrick McGrath's sixth work of fiction begins several decades later, when young Ambrose Tree is summoned to visit his dying Uncle William at Drogo Hall. Assuming that he is about to inherit his uncle's estate, he rushes across Lambeth Marsh to the great manor house. Instead, though, he's promptly drawn into his uncle's extraordinary story of Harry Peake and his headstrong young daughter, Martha.
Harry, "to whom Nature in her folly gave the soul of a smuggler, and the tongue of a poet," was a Cornish smuggler, horrifically mutilated in a fire that killed his wife and dispersed his children. Only Martha stood by him. As the story unfolds, she follows her father to London, where the self-anointed, poetry-spouting "Cripplegate Monster" displays his hideously deformed body in the taverns and watering holes of London's underworld. Soon Harry comes to the sinister attentions of Lord Drogo, who "wanted him for his Museum of Anatomy." As father and daughter are drawn into this gentleman scientist's world, Harry turns to drink, catastrophically abusing Martha and sending her fleeing to America, where she becomes embroiled in the struggle for independence from England. At this point, the story may seem to have wandered far afield. But as Martha Peake reaches its climax, Ambrose realizes that the fate of both parent and child is much closer to home than he could ever have imagined.
Practicing the black art of storytelling to near-perfection, Patrick McGrath has produced a wonderful tale of "sacrifice and abomination and heroism and resolve and victory." The book's darkness and intermittent grotesquerie will cement his New Gothic reputation. Still, Martha Peake belongs more arguably in the company of Charles Dickens, whose literary ghost haunts these pages no less powerfully than those of the tragic father-and-daughter team. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution: ISBN 0375500812 (0-375-50081-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Martha Peake: ISBN 0375701311 (0-375-70131-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Martha Peake : A Novel of the Revolution: ISBN 0140291393 (0-14-029139-3)
Martha Peake Double Sided Banner Poby Patrick McGrathISBN 0149035519 (0-14-903551-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt Education
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Patrick McGrathISBN 0192100416 (0-19-210041-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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The Nature of Moral Judgement: A Study in Contemporary Moral Philosophyby Patrick McGrathISBN 0268003157 (0-268-00315-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic Fictionby Bradford Morrow, Patrick McGrathISBN 0330324039 (0-330-32403-9)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan
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Picador Book of the New Gothicby Patrick McGrath , Bradford MorrowISBN 0330330659 (0-330-33065-9)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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Port Mungoby Patrick McGrathISBN 0385660340 (0-385-66034-0)
Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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Primary Medical Care of Children and Adolescentsby William Feldman, Patrick McGrath , Rosser, Walter, W.ISBN 0195042980 (0-19-504298-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Spiderby Patrick McGrathISBN 0140146423 (0-14-014642-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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