Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, Spider is a tale of horror and madness, storytelling and skepticism, a novel whose dizzying style lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror.
| ISBN: | 9780679736301 |
| Publication date: | 8th October 1991 |
| Author: | Patrick McGrath |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 221 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Psychological thriller Horror and Supernatural Fiction |