He is, or so he states, writing all this down in a notebook which he keeps hidden, variously, under a newspaper drawer-liner, under the damaged linoleum floor of his room, or up the chimney of a disused gas fire. As he sits on a bench, rolling his own cigarettes, he begins to tell the tale of his childhood, of his remote, emotionally brutal father and slight, quiet, protective mother.
He takes daily walks to the River Thames, following the old canals and towpaths that run along the edge of his memories, under the shadow of the immense oil and gas tanks that dominate the industrial landscape. Wilkinson, along with a handful of others he calls "dead souls". Spider, birth name Dennis Cleg, is a recent arrival from a psychiatric hospital to a halfway house in the East End of London-just a few streets away from the very house where he grew up, which was the scene of some barely visible but tremendous trauma which peeps out at the reader gradually from the fog of Spider's reminiscences.Īs the story opens, Spider has just taken up residence in the halfway house, under the stern eye of Mrs. In the novel, a psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator, the protagonist wrestles with mental illness and trauma from his past.
The name Norvell came from his maternal grandmother Elvira Russell Norvell. He was born in Virginia the son of Charles Wordsworth Page (1880 1947) and Estlie Isabelle Bethel Page (1880 1946). Spider is a novel by the British novelist Patrick McGrath, originally published in the United States in 1990. The 'Black Police Trilogy' is author Norvell Pages classic pulp fiction Nazi allegory from 1938. Norvell Wordsworth Page (19041961) was an American pulp fiction writer, journalist and editor who later became a government intelligence worker.
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