Asylum
McGrath, Patrick, 1950-2015
Book
Summer, 1959, and Max Raphael is appointed deputy superintendent of an isolated hospital for the criminally insane. When Max decides to have his lodging's Victorian conservatory restored it is a patient, Edgar Stark, who comes to do the work. And there Max's beautiful and lonely wife Stella first befriends Edgar and later becomes his lover. But as their secret affair becomes ever more obsessive so their love threatens to destroy everything it touches...
Main title:
Asylum / Patrick McGrath.
Author:
McGrath, Patrick, 1950-, author
Work:
Edition:
Penguin Essentials edition.
Imprint:
London Penguin Books, 2015.©1996
Collation:
xvii, 249 pages ; 19 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9780241973677 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
108517