About

Patrick McGrath (b. 1950) is an English writer, primarily known for his Gothic novels. He was born in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital where his father was Medical Superintendent. E was educated at Stonyhurst College. His fiction is principally characterised by the first person unreliable narrator, and recurring subject matter in his work includes mental illness, repressed homosexuality and adulterous relationships. Is novel Martha Peake won the Premio Flaiano Prize in Italy.

Writing Madness is a new, massive collection of short fiction, novellas, and essays by Patrick McGrath It features the complete contents of McGrath's brilliant 1987 debut collection, Blood and Water and Other Tales, the three novellas of Ghost Town, six previously uncollected short stories, seven essays, and over 20 of McGrath's insightful and engaging introductions and book reviews from over the years or thirty years Patrick McGrath's novels have received high critical acclaim worldwide, and won prizes internationally Writing Madness is the first large-scale collection of McGrath's short fiction and nonfiction, including the stories in Blood and Water and Other Tales, and Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now.

Lso included in this unique volume are a number of McGrath's essays, introductions and book reviews, and several uncollected stories An account of his childhood in the shadow of the walls of Britain's largest top-security mental hospital, “A Boy's Broadmoor,” is reprinted here, as is his astonishing account of a bizarre true-life tragedy, “Death of a Silent Twin.” Gorgeously he writer who first coined the term The New Gothic, and has been called by one critic “possibly the best gothic novelist ever,” is here published in a beautiful volume from , sure to become a treasured item on every collector's bookshelf Limited to just 300 copies for sale, edition information.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Patrick McGrath, Joyce Carol Oates, Harry Brockway, and Danel Olson.
• Bound in full black Cialux cloth.
• Sumptuous page design.
• Two color printing throughout.
• Ribbon marker.
• Printed endsheets.
• Top edge stain.
• Head and tail bands.

External Links

• Writing Madness. Centipede Press page for Writing Madness
• Patrick McGrath (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Patrick McGrath