Dr. Haggard's Disease

The setting is a cliffside manor on the English coast in the early years of the Second World War. The narrator is Dr. Edward Haggard, a mysteriously wounded figure racked by morphine addiction and tormented by the memories of his intense affair with Fanny, the wife of his former chief pathologist. Fanny is dead, but when her son, a young fighter pilot, appears in Dr. Haggard's life, the aging doctor finds out how an old passion can turn into a strange--and dangerous--obsession.

With consummate artistry and profound understanding of the frontiers of human experience, Patrick McGrath proves himself an unsurpassed craftsman of literary suspense.

Author: Patrick McGrath
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/12/1994
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.25w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780679752615

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/06/1994

About the Author
Patrick McGrath is the author of several modern gothic novels, including Asylum and Spider, and two collections of stories. He lives in New York, where he is on the writing faculties of the New School and Princeton University.