Patrick McGrath

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February 07, 1950 in London, England, The United Kingdom

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Patrick McGrath was born on 7th February, 1950 in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital where his father was Medical Superintendent.[1]. He was educated at Stonyhurst College. He is a British novelist whose work has been categorized as gothic fiction. He is married to actress Maria Aitken and lives in New York City.

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Average rating: 3.59 · 3,668 ratings · 466 reviews · 50 distinct works

	Asylum 3.64 avg rating — 1,351 ratings — published 1997 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Spider 3.77 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 1988 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Grotesque 3.66 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Trauma 3.07 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Dr. Haggard's Disease 3.66 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution 3.25 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Port Mungo 3.25 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Blood and Water and Other Tales 3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Ghost Town: Tales Of Manhattan Then And Now 3.35 avg rating — 77 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Picador Book Of The New Gothic by Patrick McGrath, Bradford Morrow, Partick McGrath 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings	My rating:

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“I am not, as you will have observed, a man greatly enamored of his fellow human beings. I do not enter lightly into the foibles and whimsicalities of others, I do not suffer fools gladly, I seem able, in conversation, only to needle or be needled. My relationships, as a result, are few, and those few are tenuous, prickly sorts of arrangements, altogether lacking in the spontaneity and intimacy for which humans, I'm told, have an instinctive need. I am aware of no such instincts myself. ”
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“Stella realized then that Charlie's unhappiness had locked him out of this community as effectively as hers had, and she felt a dull sense of confirmation, she felt she might have known, this is the nature of people, they unerringly select as their victim the one who most needs their warmth.”
― Patrick McGrath, Asylum

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“All was strange in a fog, buildings grew vague, human beings groped and became lost, the landmarks, the compass points, by which they navigated melted into nothingness and the world was transfigured into a country of the blind. But if the sighted became blind, then the blind - and for some odd reason I have always regarded myself as one of the blind - the blind became sighted, and I remember felling at home in the fog, happily at ease in the murk and gloom that so confused my neighbors.”
― Patrick McGrath, Spider

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