Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now - Couverture souple

McGrath, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0747583722 ISBN 13 : 9780747583721

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006

Synopsis

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 favoured patient reeling from the destruction of the World Trade Center, but fails to detect the damage she herself has sustained. In this trio of stunning tales from a master storyteller, Patrick McGrath excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747583722
• ISBN 13: 9780747583721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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