Blood and Water and Other Tales
by Patrick McGrath

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Book Review: How delightful to come across this writer!
Summary: 5 Stars

Patrick McGrath has a style all his own. It's very Gothic ... almost Baroque (and hope I'm using that term in an acceptable way). Although McGrath has been pegged as a horror writer, theses are not stories that are necessarily scary; rather, they make the most of weird or ghastly scenarios with humor, affection, and pathos. Most of the stories are written in the third person, though a few are written in the first. Either way, you imagine being TOLD these stories by an actor on a stage. The style is full of descriptive flourishes and absurd observations. If you are the sort of reader that enjoys reading an occasional paragraph OUT LOUD simply because it's written in such a witty and dramatic way, you need to read this book.

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