false 20011461 901533 895479 0679781382 9780679781387 65 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179266316m/895479.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179266316s/895479.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895479.Asylum 3.61 486 New Yorker review praised Patrick McGrath's "ornate, deadpan style . . . distinguished by its unusual seriousness, its lack of camp," and described Asylum 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.]]> 13072 3.53 1467 199 1996 3 0 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...]]>