Asylum
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Publisher Description
A story of self-obsession narrated by the point of view of a psychiatrist, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair...
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A passionate love story lies at the heart of Patrick McGrath’s ominous thriller. Set in 1959 within a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, the novel tracks the perilous affair between inmate Edgar Stark and Stella Raphael, whose husband serves as the asylum’s deputy superintendent. Using Stark’s cultured psychiatrist—Peter Cleave—as a narrator is McGrath’s masterstroke. As the insidious tale unspools dramatically and violently, Cleave offers a measured, nuanced take on the shocking events.
