Name: Asylum
Rating: 3.192307692307693 (13 reviews)
ISBN: 9780679781387

Patrick McGrath

Follows the destructive love affair between a psychiatrist's beautiful wife and a brilliant sculptor confined to a mental hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage

Asylum

Denise La Greca

Trevor Berrett

For my complete review, go here:

http://mookse.wordpress.com/2008/10/0...

Jennie Taoka

Ashley Lock

Liz Prinz

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...

Sabine Delorme

Manuela Miksa

Witch

*emmie*

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...

Asylum

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