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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.
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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The New Yorker review praised Patrick McGrath's "ornate, deadpan style . . . distinguished by its unusual seriousness, its lack of camp," and described Asylum as a "layered, implicating book, whose terrors and malignities aren't quite the ones we expect, and are a matter of mood and viewpoint as well as of plot." McGrath's fourth novel (his other three are also highly recommended) features a subtly deceptive narrator whose confident, musical voice seduces you--a voice that mirrors, in its meter, emotions ranging from lyrically obsessed, to meticulously fond, to cautious and stiff with horror. And the imagery is unforgettable: the grim architecture of the asylum; a ravaged human head with empty eye sockets; a drowning in a pool on a barren heath.
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"A tour de force of suspense." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Taut, tension-filled . . . a chilling story that works as both a Freudian parable and an old-fashioned gothic shocker." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A masterpiece--fiction of a depth and power we hardly hope to encounter anymore." --Tobias Wolff
"Beautifully written, morally complex, utterly convincing." --People
"Taut, tension-filled . . . a chilling story that works as both a Freudian parable and an old-fashioned gothic shocker." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A masterpiece--fiction of a depth and power we hardly hope to encounter anymore." --Tobias Wolff
"Beautifully written, morally complex, utterly convincing." --People
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0679781382
- ISBN 13 9780679781387
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