Asylum

Asylum

by PatrickMcGrath (Author)

Synopsis

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...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 28 Aug 1997

ISBN 10: 0140258221
ISBN 13: 9780140258226
Prizes: Shortlisted for Guardian Fiction Prize 1996.

Author Bio
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.