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Asylum by Patrick McGrath (1998, Paperback, Reprint) 
Asylum by Patrick McGrath (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Asylum by Patrick McGrath (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1998-03-01
Series: Vintage Contemporaries Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0679781382
ISBN-13: 9780679781387
Product ID: EPID812726
Description: Stella is the wife of a psychiatrist at a rural insane asylum. Bored with her life, she becomes enamored of one of the patients, a man named Edgar, who murdered his wife in a shocking manner. A contemporary gothic novel, ASYLUM is concer...
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Synopsis
Stella is the wife of a psychiatrist at a rural insane asylum. Bored with her life, she becomes enamored of one of the patients, a man named Edgar, who murdered his wife in a shocking manner. A contemporary gothic novel, ASYLUM is concerned with the conflicts of art and psychiatry, men and women, madness and sanity, and features a particularly artful unreliable narrator.

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Publication Date:1998-03-01
Series:Vintage Contemporaries Series
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:8.0 oz

Publisher's Note
1959: When Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband at his new posting, a remote maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane, she soon she falls under the spell of a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined for murdering his wife. "Beautifully written, morally complex, utterly convincing".--"People".

From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerilybeautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins herpsychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminallyinsane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliantand magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychoticrage. But Stellas knowledge of Edgars crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction thatensues--a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those aroundher.

Industry Reviews
"McGrath has written a quite marvellous novel; unsensational and yet slowly shocking, rich not in its surface activity, since its prose is plain and unruffled, but in the tormented depths of its spirit. The complexity and richness of the novel spring, I think, from the oldest and least dispensable of the novelist's skills, the analysis of psychology; a skill which, we are temporarily persuaded, leaves the abilities of his hapless characters far behind."
Spectator - Philip Hensher (08/17/1996)

"It is McGrath's most sombre and most realistic book, and also his best."
New Yorker - John Lanchester (01/27/1997)

"We don't usually associate Gothic novels with elegance and discretion, but these are the defining features of Patrick McGrath's work."
New York Times Book Review - Michael Wood (02/23/1997)

"The unreliability of the narrator, the intense psychological layerings of the narrative, and the fevered interpretations of events by McGrath's characters make for a truly complex (but never obscure) novel. McGrath, always a worthy descendant of Poe, here takes things a level higher--producing fiction in the tradition of Henry James."
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