Nine dazzling stories make up this volume of unique and alluring fiction. In "Career Move, " poets are flown first-class to Hollywood in order to take meetings with sandal-shod produces. Witness the world of "Straight Fiction" in which everyone is gay except the beleaguered straight community. Heavy
Blood and Water and Other Stories
โ Scribed by McGrath, Patrick
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 438 KB
- Edition
- First Ballantine Books Edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, N.Y.
- ISBN-13
- 9780345355850
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Epub (my conversion)
Dark, unnerving and
wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath's acclaimed short stories deal in the
bizarre, the erotic and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing
gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl
finds a delirious, dying explorer from the Congo at the bottom of her
back garden; a night-club is terrorized by a strange libidinous hand;
and a young Victorian lady sails to India to find her fiance Cecil
horribly transformed...
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