Asylum
Author: McGrath, Patrick
ISBN: 9780241973677
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 272
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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...
ISBN: 9780241973677
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 272
Dimensions: 180mm x 111mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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...
