Asylum
of Patrick McGrath
Description
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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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 254 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date March 3rd 1998
- First Publication 08/29/96
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679781387
- Edition Vintage Contemporaries
- Category Fiction
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