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  Fiction/978-0-375-70131-3

  PORT MUNGO

  In a seedy river town on the Gulf of Honduras, Jack Rathbone believed he had found a place that would give him and his lover, the accomplished artist Vera Savage, the solitude they would need to create a body of work that would shake the art world to its core. But in a place where time lies thicker than the mangrove swamps that surround it, Jack and Vera discover an emotional frontier more fearsome, untamed, and dangerous than any wilderness.

  Fiction/978-1-4000-7548-5

  SPIDER

  Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, Spider is a tale of horror and madness, storytelling and skepticism, a novel whose dizzying style lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror.

  Fiction/978-0-679-73630-1

  TRAUMA

  Charlie Weir is a man who tackles other people’s demons for a living. He has seen every kind of trauma during his years as a psychiatrist in New York. Yet he hasn’t found a way of resolving his own conflicts, particularly the fatal mistake that caused his wife and daughter to leave him, condemning him to corrosive loneliness and restless anger. Years later, he meets a beautiful but damaged woman who promises to restore his dwindling faith in both his profession and himself. But as he realizes that she has become more of a patient than a lover, events conspire to send him reeling toward the abyss.

  Fiction/978-1-4000-7549-2

  VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

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  FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, MARCH 1998

  Copyright © 1997 by Patrick McGrath

  All Rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1997.

  The Library of Congress has cataloged

  the Random House edition as follows:

  McGrath, Patrick.

  Asylum/Patrick McGrath.

  p. cm.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-76444-7

  1. Title

  PS3563.C366A89 1997

  813′.54-dc20 96-24849

  Author photograph © Marion Ettlinger

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