Trauma (McGrath)
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| Book: | Trauma |
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| Author: | Patrick McGrath |
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| Publisher: | Knopf Publishing Group |
Then, in the haunting aftermath of Charlie’s mother’s death, Agnes returns to offer him the solace that he has never been able to provide for her. Almost simultaneously, he is presented with a quite different anodyne—a volatile woman whose irresistible beauty, tinged though it is with an air of grievous suffering, jeopardizes everything he has hoped might restore his dwindling faith in his calling, his future and himself.
As Charlie’s hold on sanity weakens, and events conspire to send him reeling headlong toward the abyss, the themes of family, passion and madness—by now synonymous with Patrick McGrath’s writing—rightly assume “the inevitability of myth,” as Tobias Wolff has written of his work, in “fiction of a depth and power we hardly hope to encounter anymore.” A genuine psychological thriller, Trauma is an experience at once unnerving, unsettling and utterly riveting.
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Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “an uncommon storyteller [with a] trademark ability to probe the layers of the human psyche,” Patrick McGrath has written his most addictive and enthralling novel yet.
