Spider
By: Patrick McGrath.
Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Series: Vintage contemporaries
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Mentally ill -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Description: 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.