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  • Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890-1960

    by Patrick J. McGrath ...
    Series series The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Series on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy
    In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America’s corporate, political, and military elites. They did so not just to improve their professional standing and win more money for research, says Patrick McGrath, but for political reasons as well. They wanted to use their new institutional connections to effect a transformation of American political culture. They ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Early Modern Asceticism

    Literature, Religion, and Austerity in the English Renaissance

    by Patrick J. McGrath ...
    In discussions of the works of Donne, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan, Early Modern Asceticism shows how conflicting approaches to asceticism animate depictions of sexuality, subjectivity, and embodiment in early modern literature and religion. The book challenges the perception that the Renaissance marks a decisive shift in attitudes towards the body, sex, and the self. In early modernity, self ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Clinical Handbook for the Management of Mood Disorders

    by Patrick J. McGrath, Steven P. Roose ...
    This Clinical Handbook for the Management of Mood Disorders will equip clinicians with the knowledge to refine their diagnostic skills and implement treatment plans for mood disorders based on the most up-to-date evidence on interventions that work. Covering the widest range of treatments and techniques, it provides clear guidance for the management of all types and subtypes of both minor and ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Constance

    A Novel

    by Patrick McGrath ...
    The cool, beautiful Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party, she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and he pursues Constance with relentless determination. Eventually she surrenders, accepts his marriage proposal, and moves, with some dread, into his dark, book-filled ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • The Wardrobe Mistress

    by Patrick McGrath ...
    ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION***From the bestselling author of Asylum, Trauma and Spider'Ghosts of the theatre and the spectre of fascism haunt cold and grimy London in this atmospheric tale from a master of the grotesque.' GuardianJANUARY 1947.London is in ruins, there’s nothing to eat, and it’s the coldest winter in living memory.<... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Spider

    by Patrick Mcgrath ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Grotesque

    by Patrick McGrath ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    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. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Ghost Town

    Tales of Manhattan Then and Now

    by Patrick McGrath ...
    Three haunting and brilliant tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath'Sharp and haunting ... McGrath's prose is clean, lucid and utterly transfixing' Sunday Times'Like a latter-day Edgar Allan Poe, McGrath probes the insanity and violence lurking beneath the skin of daily life' Financial TimesA man is haunted by the memory of his mother with a rope round her neck. It is the ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Dr. Haggard's Disease

    by Patrick Mcgrath ...
    “A stormy tale of obsession…this is a haunting portrayal of a man broken by passion” (Library Journal).Dr. Edward Haggard is a lonely, pain-racked romantic, standing at the window of his house on the edge of a cliff, watching as the clouds of war draw near, and reflecting on the nature of love, death, medicine, war—but most of all on the wife of the senior pathologist, and the few brief months of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Martha Peake

    A Novel of the Revolution

    by Patrick McGrath ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Master storyteller Patrick McGrath--author of the critically acclaimed novel Asylum and a finalist for England's prestigious Whitbread Prize for fiction--once again spins a hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty. Set among the teeming streets and desolate wharves of Hogarth's London, then shifting to the powder-keg colony of Massachusetts Bay, Martha Peake envelops the reader ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Asylum

    by Patrick McGrath ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Patrick McGrath has created his most psychologically penetrating vision to date: a nightmare world rocked to its foundations by a passion of such force and intensity that it shatters the lives--and minds--of all who are touched by it.Stella Raphael, a woman of great beauty and formidable intelligence, is married to Max, a staid and unimaginative forensic psychiatrist. Max has taken a job in a huge ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Blood and Water and Other Stories

    by Patrick Mcgrath ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD