Download or read book Spider written by Patrick McGrath and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991-10-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us 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.