Spider: A Novel

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. A Dark Tale Of A Man Who Probably Killed His Mother By Mistake, But Accuses His Father. Writing His Memoirs, Spider Describes How His Long-suffering Mother Discovered His Father In The Shed With A Prostitute, And Details The Disturbing Consequences. Patrick Mcgrath. Spider, the narrator and main character in this novel, is a lonely figure who returns to the East End of London after spending 20 years in an asylum for the insane. This story gives a vision of what psychotic illness looks like from the inside.