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Asylum [electronic resource] / Patrick McGrath.

ISBN: 9780307764447 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307764443 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 p.)
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1998, c1997.

McGrath, Patrick, 1950- (Author).

Summary:

Stella Raphael is married to Max, a staid and unimaginative forensic psychiatrist who has taken a job in a huge top-security mental hospital in rural England. Stella, far from London society, finds herself restless and bored when into her lonely existence comes Edgar Stark, a brilliant sculptor confined to the hospital after killing his wife. He comes to Stella's garden to rebuild an old Victorian conservatory there, and Stella cannot ignore her overwhelming physical attraction to this desperate man. Their explosive affair pits them against Stella's husband, her child, and the entire institution.