Patrick McGrath
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Patrick McGrath (born February 7, 1950, London) is a British novelist whose work has been categorized as gothic fiction. He is married to actress Maria Aitken and lives in New York.
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.
His novel Martha Peake won the Premio Flaiano Prize in Italy.
[edit] Novels
- The Grotesque (1989) (filmed by John-Paul Davidson in 1995 — see The Grotesque, aka Grave Indiscretion or Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets)
- Spider (1990) (filmed by David Cronenberg in 2001 — see Spider)
- Dr Haggard's Disease (1993)
- Asylum (1996) (filmed by David Mackenzie in 2005 — see Asylum)
- Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution (2000)
- Port Mungo (2004)
- Trauma (2008)
[edit] Other works
- Blood and Water and Other Tales (1989) (short-story collection)
- Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now (2005) (linked short stories)
