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McGrath, Patrick The Grotesque: A Novel
Poseidon Press 1989 067166509X / 9780671665098 Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $17.95. Dustcover shows light wear (NO tears). ONLY writing/mark inside book is notation in book front on blank page: "RO - From Porter - X-mas 92". 187 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. Pages show light tanning. NO tears inside book. Synopsis" This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell. Publishers Weekly: Witty, weird and highly enjoyable, this gothic British tale is aptly titled. The set-up is macabre: a distinguished paleontologist is brain-damaged and slowly turning into a vegetable. He cannot speak, but narrates an interior monologue of all he sees and hears: a lot of sexual shenanigans and a particularly grisly murder, all centered around "Fledge,'' the butler, who has ambitions. The stylistic joke is that all these horrors take place in a quaint, genteel English country setting, where the village is "Pock-on-the-Fling,'' the pub, "The Hodge and Purlet'' and the barrister, "Sir Fleckley Tome.'' However deadly the deed, the language is always decorous and impeccably mannered. The result is strangely hilarious -- as if a Stephen King story were being told in the manner of a latter-day Anthony Trollope.
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