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Asylum

A woman whose husband is a doctor working in an asylum has an affair with a patient, a sculptor who killed his wife from jealousy. When he escapes she follows him, but his jealous fits send her back to her husband. The sculptor is caught, the doctor changes jobs, but that is not the end of the story. One day she will rejoin the sculptor, this time as a fellow-patient.

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  • "A woman whose husband is a doctor working in an asylum has an affair with a patient, a sculptor who killed his wife from jealousy. When he escapes she follows him, but his jealous fits send her back to her husband. The sculptor is caught, the doctor changes jobs, but that is not the end of the story. One day she will rejoin the sculptor, this time as a fellow-patient."@en
  • "In the summer of 1959, Max Raphael becomes deputy superintendent of a remote hospital for the criminally insane. His wife Stella - beautiful, yet isolated - befriends a patient, Edgar Stark, and the affair between them develops into an obsessive, destructive love."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. 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 ..."
  • "From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. 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 ..."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Thrillers"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Compact discs"@en
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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en

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  • "Asylum"@en
  • "Asylum"

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