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The Grotesque
by Patrick McGrath | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0679776214 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0679776214 Global Overview for this book
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The Grotesque
Author: Patrick McGrath
An elegant, gothic tale set in a mansion house in Berkshire in 1949, in which Sir Hugo Coal believes Fledge the butler is about to oust him from his marital bed and usurp his position.
Publishers Weekly
Witty, weird and highly enjoyable, this gothic British tale is aptly titled. The set-up is macabre: a distinguished paleontologist is brain-damaged and slowly turning into a vegetable. He cannot speak, but narrates an interior monologue of all he sees and hears: a lot of sexual shenanigans and a particularly grisly murder, all centered around "Fledge,'' the butler, who has ambitions. The stylistic joke is that all these horrors take place in a quaint, genteel English country setting, where the village is "Pock-on-the-Fling,'' the pub, "The Hodge and Purlet'' and the barrister, "Sir Fleckley Tome.'' However deadly the deed, the language is always decorous and impeccably mannered. The result is strangely hilarious -- as if a Stephen King story were being told in the manner of a latter-day Anthony Trollope.
