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      Blood & Water and Other Tales

      by Patrick McGrath
      Published
      Mar 1989
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      214
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      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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      Genres

      General Fiction Romance

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      Gothic

      Themes

      Noir

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      First Edition Mar 1989 Ballantine ISBN 0345355857
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      Feb 1988 Simon & Schuster ISBN 067164405X
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      Aug 2015 Simon & Schuster ISBN B00XI6PBGQ
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