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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Vintage Books
Publication date March 1, 1998
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780679781387
ISBN-10 0679781382
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight 0.50 lbs.
Original list price $16.00
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A critically acclaimed psycho-sexual thriller follows the destructive love affair between a psychiatrist's beautiful wife and a brilliant sculptor confined to a mental hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage. Reissue. (A Paramount Classic film, directed by David Mackenzie, releasing Spring 2005, starring Sir Ian McKellen, Natasha Richardson, & Marton Csokas) (Suspense)
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.

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.

Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780679452287 Book cover for 9781568954394
 
Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (May 1, 1997)
9781568954394 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $25.95
About: Patrick McGrath has created his most psychologically penetrating vision to date: a nightmare world rocked to its foundations by a passion of such force and intensity that it shatters the lives--and minds--of all who are touched by it.
from Random House Inc (February 1, 1997)
9780679452287 | details & prices | 254 pages | 6.75 × 10.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $22.00
About: When her staid husband, a forensic psychiatrist, takes a position at a high-security mental hospital in England, Stella Raphael becomes involved with a sculptor convicted of murdering his wife, with tragic results
Paperback
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The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (March 1, 1998)
9780679781387 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Follows the destructive love affair between a psychiatrist's beautiful wife and a brilliant sculptor confined to a mental hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780792733348 Book cover for 9780792733355
 
With Ian McKellen (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Chivers Sound Library (October 31, 2004)
9780792733348 | details & prices | 7.00 × 6.50 × 1.50 in. | 0.82 lbs | List price $37.95
About: From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness.
With Ian McKellen (other contributor) | Mp3 una edition from Chivers Sound Library (October 31, 2004)
9780792733355 | details & prices | 6.50 × 6.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.46 lbs | List price $22.95
About: From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness.
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780792733331
 
With Ian McKellen (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Chivers Sound Library (October 31, 2004)
9780792733331 | details & prices | 5.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $54.95
About: Patrick McGrath has created his most psychologically penetrating vision to date: a nightmare world rocked to its foundations by a passion of such force and intensity that it shatters the lives--and minds--of all who are touched by it.

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