Patrick McGrath

Asylum (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A story of self-obsession narrated by the point of view of a psychiatrist, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780241975626
• Artikelnr.: 43588694

Autorenporträt

Patrick McGrath was born in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital, where for many years his father was a medical superintendent.  He is the author of Blood and Water and Other Tales, The Grotesque, Spider, and Dr. Haggard's Disease, and he was the co-editor, with Bradford Morrow, of The New Gothic.  He lives in New York City and London and is married to the actress Maria Aitken.