First Edition. First printing, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($17.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. McGrath's first novel, after a collection of stories. Rear copies.

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Title: The Grotesque (First Edition)
Publisher: Poseidon Press (Simon & Schuster), New York
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 067166509X
ISBN 13: 9780671665098
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Very near fine in a like dustjacket. SIGNED hardcover first edition - New York:: Poseidon,, (1989.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. Author's first novel (second book - preceded by a volume of short stories.) John Hawkes called it a "wonderfully inventive, sinister, macrabre yet comic portrait of England in decay." SIGNED on the title page.

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Witty, weird and highly enjoyable, this gothic British tale is aptly titled. The set-up is macabre: a distinguished paleontologist is brain-damaged and slowly turning into a vegetable. He cannot speak, but narrates an interior monologue of all he sees and hears: a lot of sexual shenanigans and a particularly grisly murder, all centered around "Fledge," the butler, who has ambitions. The stylistic joke is that all these horrors take place in a quaint, genteel English country setting, where the village is "Pock-on-the-Fling," the pub, "The Hodge and Purlet" and the barrister, "Sir Fleckley Tome." However deadly the deed, the language is always decorous and impeccably mannered. The result is strangely hilarious--as if a Stephen King story were being told in the manner of a latter-day Anthony Trollope.
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