Asylum
(Sprache: Englisch)
In the summer of 1959 Max Raphael becomes deputy superintendent of a remote hospital for the criminally insane. His wife Stella - beautiful and isolated - befriends a patient, Edgar Stark, and the affair between them develops into an obsessive, destructive love.
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In the summer of 1959 Max Raphael becomes deputy superintendent of a remote hospital for the criminally insane. His wife Stella - beautiful and isolated - befriends a patient, Edgar Stark, and the affair between them develops into an obsessive, destructive love.
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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...
Autoren-Porträt von Patrick McGrath
Patrick McGrath is the author of two story collections and eight novels, including Asylum, which was an international bestseller. His novels have been widely translated, and he is also the author of Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now, a collection of novellas. Trauma was shortlisted in the UK for the Costa Novel Award. Spider was filmed by David Cronenberg from McGrath's adaptation. Constance, his most recent novel, was published in 2013. He coedited an influential anthology of short fiction, The New Gothic, and recent nonfiction includes introductions to The Monk, Moby Dick and Barnaby Rudge. Patrick McGrath lives in Manhattan and London. Patrick McGrath is the author of THE GROTESQUE, SPIDER, DR HAGGARD'S DISEASE and BLOOD AND WATER AND OTHER TALES all of which have attracted widespread critical acclaim. He lives in New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patrick McGrath
- 1997, 256 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0140258221
- ISBN-13: 9780140258226
Sprache:
Englisch
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