Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The Doctor Is in, and the Wounds Are Psychic

By Michiko Kakutani writing in The New York Times
Patrick McGrath was, of course, one of the star authors at the recent NZ Post Writers & Readers Week in Wellington, New Zealand.

A hero with a dysfunctional childhood and an even more dysfunctional family; grisly and graphic deaths; alarming dreams and premonitions; strange coincidences that may be the product of paranoia or hidden conspiracies; obsessive thoughts and outrageous psychotic behavior: these have been the staples of Patrick McGrath’s fiction.

TRAUMA
By Patrick McGrath
210 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95.


For the review go to the New York Times online.

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Melissa said...

I have been enjoying the whole dysfunctional family theme lately. I'm curious about this book. Right now I am thoroughly enjoying One Foot in the Black. I was rooting for the main character to overcome his miserable father and build a positive life. Doing so in the context of the fire service made an absorbing story. Very similar to McGrath's latest fiction.

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