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From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage. But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues--a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.
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Asylum, Patrick McGrath
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- Released
- 1998
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- Title
- Asylum
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Patrick McGrath
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0679781382
- ISBN13
- 9780679781387
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Psychological Topics, Thriller, Horror, Psychological Thrillers, Gothic, Gothic Horror
- Original title
- Asylum
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage. But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues--a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.