Asylum by Patrick McGrath [1998 TRADE PAPERBACK]

Asylum by Patrick McGrath

TRADE PAPERBACK [1998] VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

Very nice trade pb edition w/ stepback beneath windowed cover.

Cover has shelf wear and some mild sticker damage to front cover [small nicks] - Otherwise good as new. 

In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage.

But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues--a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.