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More copies of this ISBN:Asylumby Patrick McGrath
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"Superb....Asylum is McGrath's most somber and most realistic book, and also his best." The New Yorker Review:"In every other respect...the book is hypnotizing, with its own strange but darkly convincing pace and style; and the way in which nature and climate are woven into the fabric of the bizarre couple's strange love is masterly." Publishers Weekly Review:"A contemporary master of highbrow gothic fiction....[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." Kirkus Reviews Review:"A virtuoso of contrast, McGrath wields a cleverly modernized form of Victorianism, precise and stately, to render scenes of unsettling and suspenseful eroticism..." Booklist Review:"[S]tylish...should only add to [McGrath's] reputation as the leader of the neo-Gothic pack.... Review:"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 Review:"Beautifully written, morally complex, utterly convincing." People Review:"A book as absorbing as it is intelligent....The story of this love affair unfolds like a dream into a nightmare — the characters move relentlessly toward their tragic end with desire raging like a fire, gathering strength and destroying everything and everyone in it spath." Los Angeles Times Synopsis:Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters), Natasha Richardson (The Handmaid's Tale), and Marton Csokas (The Bourne Supremacy), with a screenplay adaptation by Patrick Marber (Closer). About the AuthorPatrick McGrath was born in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital, where for many years his father was a medical superintendent. He is the author of Blood and Water and Other Tales, The Grotesque, Spider, and Dr. Haggard's Disease, and he was the co-editor, with Bradford Morrow, of The New Gothic. He lives in New York City and London and is married to the actress Maria Aitken. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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