Asylum
1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
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Author
Publication
1998 - Vintage Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
63,500 words, Guess
Page Count
254 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveasylum0000mcgr_u6g6
- ISBN-100679781382
- ISBN-139780679781387
- Goodreads895479
- LibraryThing19309
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- Library of Congress Control Number96024849
- Better World Books9780679781387
- Open LibraryOL22368759M
Classifications
- LCCPS3563.C3663 A89 1998
- LCCPS3563.C3663 A89 1997
Description
Stella Raphael, a woman of great beauty and formidable intelligence, is married to Max, a staid and unimaginative forensic psychiatrist. Max has taken a job in a huge top-security mental hospital in rural England and Stella, far from London society, finds herself restless and bored. Then into her lonely existence comes Edgar Stark, a brilliant sculptor confined to the hospital after killing his wife in a psychotic rage. He comes to Stella's garden merely to rebuild an old, Victorian conservatory, but there's an overwhelming physical attraction to this desperate man that Stella is powerless to ignore. Their explosive affair pits them against Stella's husband, her child, and the entire institution. When the crisis comes, Stella makes her decision - one that will destroy several lives and precipitate an appalling tragedy that could only be fueled by illicit sexual love.
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