Asylum (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Patrick McGrath
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Suicide, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Marriage, Adultery, Sculpting or sculptors, Hospitals, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Great Britain
- Locales: England, Wales
With the publication of BLOOD AND WATER AND OTHER TALES in 1988, Patrick McGrath was hailed as the Edgar Allan Poe of the 1980’s, a gothic writer with a postmodern penchant for parody. Over the course of three novels he refined his characteristic mix of horror and hoax into a more effective (less excessive) means for pursuing his twin interests “in the dark and hidden areas of human nature and how they have been represented in fiction.” The result of all this sharpening of the literary scalpel is ASYLUM, a superbly crafted as well as mesmerizing psychological thriller in a gothic...
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