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Martha Peake
Patrick Mc Grath, Martine Skopan

Calmann-Lévy, 2002

L'Asile
Patrick Mc Grath

Gallimard, 2001

Spider

22 reviews
Patrick Mc Grath

Calmann-Lévy, 2002

A harrowing novel
In "Spider", Mr McGrath tells the harrowing story of a schizophrenic character called Dennis Cleg. He suffers from hallucinations - visual, auditory and olfactory - and from body delusions, he is physically regressed and has ideas of persecution. At the beginning of the novel, set in 1957, he lives in a shabby house along with other tenants, a "cargo of dead souls" as he calls the place, the ...

SPIDER
MC GRATH PATRICK

DEBOLS LLO, 2008

Patrick McGrath nacio en Londres en 1950 y paso su infancia junto al manicomio de Broadmoor del que su padre era superintendente. Es autor de un libro de relatos Sangre y agua (1988) y de las novelas Grotesco (1989) Spider (1990) Dr. Haggard s Disease (1993) Manicomio (1996) La historia de Martha Peake (2000) y Locura (2001).