Asylum
McGrath, Patrick, 1950-2001
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Asylum is a masterful tale of sexual fixation and pathological obsession, of the extreme manipulations to which people will resort to satiate personal need, and of the outer perimeters of love and hate.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...
Main title:
Asylum / Patrick McGrath.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 1997.
Collation:
249p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Viking, 1996.
Dewey class:
823.914
LC class:
PS3563.C3663
Language:
English
BRN:
3841672