Posted on 03/07/04
Gin blossoms -- or does she?
Port MungoBy Patrick McGrathDoubleday Canada,242 pages, $32.95Patrick McGrath is probably best-known for the Gothic flavour of his fiction and the fact that he spent part of his childhood on the grounds of Broadmoor, the notorious English asylum, where his father was medical superintendent. By dint of the sophistication and intelligence of his writing, he has managed to escape the constraints of genre and be deemed a literary novelist of some heft. Port Mungo, his new novel, furthers the move from his Gothic origins, without abandoning them altogether, to often brilliant if ultimately problematic effect.
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