# Spider

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- Book: [Spider](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-mcgrath/spider) ([Spider.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-mcgrath/spider.md))
- Authors: [Patrick McGrath](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-mcgrath)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7973-630-1
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1991-10-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction...