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McGrath, Patrick

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | Copyright

McGrath, Patrick (1950– ), British novelist, born in London. His early fiction tended towards the bizarre and neo-Gothic: Blood and Water (1988) is a sometimes lurid collection of short stories. The Grotesque (1989) is a morally serious parody of English Gothic fiction, and Spider (1990), a disconcerting account of a schizophrenic's return to the scene of his brutal London childhood. His subsequent novels show him moving beyond the Gothic genre. Dr Haggard's Disease (1993) and Asylum (1996) are both studies in romantic obsession: the latter, which tells of a psychiatrist who becomes infatuated with one of her husband's most dangerous patients, is a powerful exploration of the destructive nature of passion, and a tour de force of unreliable narration.

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