Ghost Town. Tales of Manhattan Then and Now by Patrick McGrath

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A man is haunted by the memory of his mother with a rope round her neck. It is the American War of Independence, and having defied the British forces occupying New York she must pa y for her revolutionary activities. But fifty years on her son harbours a festering guilt for his inadvertent part in her downfall. In thrusting nineteenth-century New York, a ruthless merchant's sensitive son is denied the love of his life through his father's prejudice against the immigrants flooding into the city - and madness and violence ensue. In the wake of 9/11, a Manhattan psychiatrist treats a favoured patient reeling from the destruction of the World Trade Centre, but fails to detect the damage she herself has sustained. In this trio of stunning tales from a master storyteller, Patrick McGrath excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history. This 2006 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Paperback is in good condition. ISBN: 9780747583721 SKU: 1507412 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. Show more