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  1. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    She carried a faint odor of cocktail sausages mingled with sweat. Like a fool I slipped my hand up the inside of her leg. I felt the roughness of her nylons.
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  2. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    Her mouth was smeared with lipstick and her throat swung bagged and cross-hatched from a wrinkled knob of chin flanked by rouged jowls loosely depending from lumpy cheekbones. Powerful gusts of stale scent emanated from the crannies of her person; the little dog was curled in her lap like a hairy tumor.
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  3. Patrick McGrath _ Dr. Haggard's Disease

    In quelle settimane invecchiai di parecchi anni, imparai molte cose sullo spirito e su quella sacca simile a una pera, grossa come un pugno e divisa in quattro cavità che chiamiamo cuore.
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  4. Patrick McGrath _ Martha Peake: A Novel of the

    He wished only to live as a free man upon the fruits of his labor, and grow old in the natural rhythms of the earth; instead of which he was cursed, so he felt, always to be an object of disgust, or horror, which is only disgust with a portion of fear superadded- always to be in the eyes of the world a monster.
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  5. Patrick McGrath _ Martha Peake: A Novel of the

    Harry's voice had matured like old port wine, it was deep and rich and liquid.
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  6. Patrick McGrath _ Martha Peake: A Novel of the

    ... Harry Peake's spine disturbed the people's confidence in the proper shape and form of things, a confidence they had not known they possessed, it was stitched so deep in their sense of the order of the world.
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  7. Patrick McGrath _ Martha Peake: A Novel of the

    ... he stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again.
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  8. Patrick McGrath _ Trauma

    Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.
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  9. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose?
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  10. Patrick McGrath _ Asylum

    For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very nature of their work, the long periods of isolation followed by public self-display, and the associated risk of rejection all conspire to create unnaturally intense relationships with their sexual partners. Then, when disillusion occurs, as of course it must, the sense of betrayal is profound...
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  11. Patrick McGrath _ Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan

    Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.
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  12. Patrick McGrath _ The Grotesque

    Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curtained in dingy lace.
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