{"product_id":"asylum-9780679781387","title":"Asylum","description":"From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatrick McGrath was born in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital, where for many years his father was a medical superintendent. He is the author of \u003cb\u003eBlood and Water and Other Tales\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Grotesque\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSpider\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eDr. Haggard's Disease\u003c\/b\u003e, and he was the co-editor, with Bradford Morrow, of \u003cb\u003eThe New Gothic\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives in New York City and London and is married to the actress Maria Aitken.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460700180754,"sku":"9780679781387","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bbca848d-811f-4acc-8343-1241a6ad99e0.jpg?v=1730045538","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/asylum-9780679781387","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}