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Inseparable since childhood, Jack and Gin Rathbone inhabit a world of privilege and eccentricity into which no strangers are permitted. Until, that is, Jack falls passionately in love with Vera Savage: a flamboyant and reckless artist over ten years his senior. When they flee to New York City within weeks of meeting, Gin is forced to witness their relationship unfold from a bruised, bereft distance. But when Jack and Vera move to Port Mungo, a seedy town in the mangrove swamps of Honduras, Gin is afforded the opportunity to stake her claim to her brother's life again. This feverish world of tropical impulses and artistic ambition leads, inevitably, to a death swathed immediately in mystery, as the various imperatives of passion, narcissism, and creativity hold them all in relentless thrall.
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"This book had me at the start. Sensitive material covered. The twists and turns floored me....Although the 3 books I've read by McGrath have all be on the dark side, he grabs me from the get go and never disppoints. "
— Diane (4 out of 5 stars)
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“[An] immensely clever and tautly composed novel…[with] carefully contrasted characters.”
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“A compelling piece of family Gothic.”
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“The story’s intensity…is matched by the ardor of Jennifer Van Dyck’s narration. She is elegant in speech and diction. Her compelling energy reflects the dark atmosphere as the listener awaits the unraveling of the truth at the heart of this story.”
— AudioFile
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An AudioFile Earphones Award winner
Port Mungo Listener Reviews
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" Impassioned and multi-layered. "
— Oanh, 12/5/2013 -
" Excellent but grungy book about a kooky artist and his misguided sister who provides the eloquent but unreliable narration to this creepy novel. "
— Karen, 6/22/2013 -
" This was pretty tedious - a cliched tale of artists, repetitive and uninvolving. You could forsee the twist in the tail almost from page one. "
— Sally, 4/1/2013 -
" HATED the ending..first book i threw, literally across the room in anger at the sudden end. "
— Krissy, 3/14/2013 -
" Art lovers novel. "
— Sunshine, 10/16/2012 -
" This book had me at the start. Sensitive material covered. The twists and turns floored me....Although the 3 books I've read by McGrath have all be on the dark side, he grabs me from the get go and never disppoints. "
— Diane, 9/20/2012 -
" McGrath is well & truly a master storyteller & a brilliant writer. This is a fascinating & impressive novel. "
— Emily, 4/7/2012 -
" Artists annoy me. "
— Emily, 10/16/2011 -
" Absorbing and intriguing at first, this novel eventually turned into a marathon of monotonous prose about uninteresting and unsympathetic characters making me give up half-way through (probably should have done so earlier). "
— Bibliomantic, 8/13/2011 -
" Mike and I listened to this book on CD as we drove to and from Portland, OR in April. It is another of McGrath's unreliable narrator novels. Told and read in a heated frenzy. "
— Dede, 4/5/2011 -
" The atmosphere is the most captivating feature of this book. The isolation of the island is tangible. A really nice experience and definitely a writer to watch out for. "
— tinne, 6/30/2010 -
" Two artists make each other miserable. Each casts the other as the villain to the doting, admiring sister who has heard only her brother's side for years. It's about how we deceive others and ourselves as we teak the truth. Very nicely written. "
— Valerie, 4/29/2010 -
" Mike and I listened to this book on CD as we drove to and from Portland, OR in April. It is another of McGrath's unreliable narrator novels. Told and read in a heated frenzy. "
— Dede, 4/23/2010 -
" HATED the ending..first book i threw, literally across the room in anger at the sudden end. "
— Krissy, 3/19/2010 -
" Absorbing and intriguing at first, this novel eventually turned into a marathon of monotonous prose about uninteresting and unsympathetic characters making me give up half-way through (probably should have done so earlier). "
— Bibliomantic, 8/20/2009 -
" This was pretty tedious - a cliched tale of artists, repetitive and uninvolving. You could forsee the twist in the tail almost from page one. "
— Sally, 12/30/2008 -
" Two artists make each other miserable. Each casts the other as the villain to the doting, admiring sister who has heard only her brother's side for years. It's about how we deceive others and ourselves as we teak the truth. Very nicely written. "
— Valerie, 7/19/2008 -
" McGrath is well & truly a master storyteller & a brilliant writer. This is a fascinating & impressive novel. "
— Emily, 5/23/2008
About Patrick McGrath
Patrick McGrath is the author of Asylum, Port Mungo, Blood and Water and Other Stories, The Grotesque, Spider, and other books, and he was the co-editor, with Bradford Morrow, of The New Gothic.
About Jennifer Van Dyck
Jennifer Van Dyck has appeared on Broadway in Hedda Gabler, Dancing at Lughnasa, Two Shakespearean Actors, and The Secret Rapture. She has been in new plays by Keith Bunin, Ellen McLaughlin, Catherine Filloux, Douglas Post, A. R. Gurney, and Albert Innaurato. Her film and television credits include Series 7, States of Control, Bullets over Broadway, numerous Law & Order episodes, Ed, Spin City, and The Education of Max Bickford. Her audiobook narrations have won her three AudioFile Earphones Awards.