Spider

Patrick McGrath's collection of stories, Blood and Water, enraptured critics with its elegant, perverse style. His first novel, The Grotesque, was acclaimed as an outstanding work of the imagination. With Spider, McGrath has gone beyond that achievement to write a novel as powerful as it is strange. In it he creates a character whose story, told in a storm of beautiful language, slowly reveals itself to be an intricate web of truth and illusion.