Spider
Patrick McGrath, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-73630-1
In this ``closely observed study of madness, memory and storytelling'' the delusional Dennis Clegg, aka Spider, returns to his London neighborhood after 20 years in a mental hospital and insists that his father, not he, murdered his mother. ``An admixture of Poe and the comic vulnerabilities of Beckett, this tale lingers long and disturbingly in the mind,'' said PW. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 10/07/1991
Release date: 10/01/1991
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 221 pages - 9780671665104
Paperback - 224 pages - 9780679736301