false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179266316m/895479.jpg 895479 12 The <i>New Yorker</i> review praised Patrick McGrath's "ornate, deadpan style . . . distinguished by its unusual seriousness, its lack of camp," and described <i>Asylum</i> as a "layered, implicating book, whose terrors and malignities aren't quite the ones we expect, and are a matter of mood and viewpoint as well as of plot." McGrath's fourth novel (his other three are also highly recommended) features a subtly deceptive narrator whose confident, musical voice seduces you--a voice that mirrors, in its meter, emotions ranging from lyrically obsessed, to meticulously fond, to cautious and stiff with horror. And the imagery is unforgettable: the grim architecture of the asylum; a ravaged human head with empty eye sockets; a drowning in a pool on a barren heath. 872757 1996 Asylum (Vintage Contemporaries) total:517|5:106|4:187|3:161|2:50|1:13| 517 1874 701 65 2 6 false false Tue Nov 20 14:48:22 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 14:50:03 -0800 2007 4 1 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 00:57:42 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 03:38:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 24 09:24:41 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 09:47:20 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 09:24:41 -0700 2009
The story set in 1959-60. The wife of a 2nd in command psychiatrist at a English count...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 12:06:24 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 08:16:14 -0700 2009 excellent blog: I can't believe I'm dragging an episode of Friends into this, but the narrative device of using the omniscient voice of the psychiat...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 11 13:38:53 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 03:50:58 -0700 2009 The story is told by a psychiatrist at the asylum, reporting on interviews with the woman who at the beginni...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sun Feb 03 06:29:19 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 06:31:09 -0800 2008
Who should be hospitalized and why? Where does art end and the artist begin? Where is arts inspiration? What is better, stability and comfort or passionate love and discomfort?]]> 2 0 false false Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 14:13:58 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 14:14:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 11:53:06 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 11:54:04 -0700 2008 Asylum would allow me to reacquaint myself with the gothic novel. It hadn't been presented to me as such. Essentially, I was told it to be a psychological thriller in which passion was pitted against reason in a battle for one woman's ex...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Apr 10 08:11:54 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 08:12:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Mon Feb 11 10:55:28 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 10:55:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 21:41:27 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 21:42:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 09:11:07 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 09:15:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun Dec 14 19:06:56 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 19:07:14 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 06:07:14 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 06:12:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Feb 25 20:56:40 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 20:58:19 -0800 2009 2 0 false true Thu Mar 05 22:36:11 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 22:40:48 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 17:50:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 17:51:37 -0700 2009 100+ 1 0 false false Fri Nov 07 11:21:46 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 10 12:46:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 09:13:05 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 09:16:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 25 19:07:13 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 19:07:53 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=895479