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The Wardrobe Mistress
- ISBN13：9781786330581
- 出版社：Hutchinson UK
- 作者：Patrick McGrath
- 裝訂：平裝
- 規格：19.8cm*13.3cm (高/寬)
- 出版日：2017/09/07
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It is January, 1947. The war has been over for two years. London’s in ruins, there’s nothing to eat, and it’s the coldest winter in living memory. To make matters worse, one of the great stage actors of the day, Charlie Grice, has suddenly died. His wife Joan, the wardrobe mistress, is prostrate with grief. She’s persuaded to attend a benefit performance of his last play, and watch an understudy in Charlie’s role. She dreads it.
But when the actor appears onstage, the grieving widow is startled to see that behind the new man’s eyes burns the living spirit of her husband. Later, backstage, she meets this actor, and yes, Charlie’s coming through. There’s no doubt in her mind. She’s giddy with elation.
She befriends the young actor. She starts to give him Charlie’s clothes. The friendship soon becomes a love affair, Joan all the while seeing within the understudy the living ghost of her husband.
Then one night, by chance, as she goes through Charlie’s wardrobe, she uncovers his horrifying secret. She’s devastated. For the war’s not over, after all, and the wardrobe mistress finds herself plunged into a dark new world of violence, intrigue and heartbreak.
'McGrath has the gift, the storyteller's gift, to compel attention, so that you gaze rapt into the fire and listen to the tale unfold.'
Sunday Times
‘McGrath is that rare yet essential thing, a writer who can expose our darkest fears without making us run away from them.' New Statesman
But when the actor appears onstage, the grieving widow is startled to see that behind the new man’s eyes burns the living spirit of her husband. Later, backstage, she meets this actor, and yes, Charlie’s coming through. There’s no doubt in her mind. She’s giddy with elation.
She befriends the young actor. She starts to give him Charlie’s clothes. The friendship soon becomes a love affair, Joan all the while seeing within the understudy the living ghost of her husband.
Then one night, by chance, as she goes through Charlie’s wardrobe, she uncovers his horrifying secret. She’s devastated. For the war’s not over, after all, and the wardrobe mistress finds herself plunged into a dark new world of violence, intrigue and heartbreak.
'McGrath has the gift, the storyteller's gift, to compel attention, so that you gaze rapt into the fire and listen to the tale unfold.'
Sunday Times
‘McGrath is that rare yet essential thing, a writer who can expose our darkest fears without making us run away from them.' New Statesman
作者簡介
Patrick McGrath is the author of two short story collections and nine novels, including the international bestseller, Asylum. He is also the author of Writing Madness, a collection of his short fiction and selected nonfiction. His novel Trauma was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and Spider was filmed by David Cronenberg from McGrath's adaptation. He co-edited an influential anthology of short fiction, The New Gothic, and recent nonfiction includes introductions to The Monk, Moby Dick and Barnaby Rudge. Patrick McGrath lives in Manhattan and London.
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