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A wry, mesmerizing tale of madness in a London suffused with the smells of jellied eels, leaking gas, outdoor lavatories and furry feet. Spider obsesses about wetness and fire and sexuality, about "this business of the thought patterns" and "the dead eyes" of his father and a woman named Hilda. Somewhere inside Spider's internal web of illusions lurks the truth about his mother's death.
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- Albert E. Wil helm, Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville
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Apart from a brilliant psychological portrait of the schizophrenic mind, "Spider" is designed almost like a detective story in which the reader slowly discovers what happened to Cleg in his childhood, the time he spent in a mental institution and the subsequent years at Mrs Wilkinson's house. Highly recommended.
King and Barker are fantacists. McGrath is not. He is an enormously talented writer, gifted with the remarkable ability to present, in first person, a devastating portrait of a child/man who, as a child, was either irretrievably lost in the most unfathomable regions of acute mental illness; or was driven there by two exceptionally cruel people who played an unspeakably vile trick on a fragile and confused little boy.
McGrath, unlike King ( an excellent plotter, not a particularly good writer), has access to imagery that pins twisted thoughts, images, sensations, appearances like so many repellent but compelling specimens. Each one a beautifully worded, evocative bit of horror; each one all the more frightening because they could so easily be real.
No vampires, bogeymen, banshees,or nameless oozing horrors here. A Spider could be anywhere.
And McGrath- that very rare thing in this age of slick, mannered, safe, cookie-cutter best-selling fiction, is a real writer, capable of producing powerful, wonderfully worded original work.
"This is a good thing."
Read it.
Spider takes place in 1930s/1950s east London. McGrath captures the atmosphere of this environment very nicely - it greatly enhances to the sense of gloom.
Finally, McGrath is a very 'economical' writer. His narrative is rather easy to follow, and his novels are short (yet complete). Other authors (such as Stephen King) should take notice.
the best. His richest novel, it once again has the untrustworthy narrator. Lesen Sie weiter...
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