--- product_id: 24446191 title: "Asylum" price: "€ 39.99" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/24446191-asylum store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # Asylum **Price:** € 39.99 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Asylum - **How much does it cost?** € 39.99 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/24446191-asylum) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Asylum [McGrath, Patrick] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Asylum Review: I highly recommend this book - I highly recommend this book. Not a tale for the fragile of heart. Stella, a vibrant woman, seemingly overlooked by her husband, becomes entangled with a psychiatric patient at the hospital where they are stationed. The patient is Edgar Stark and the attraction is immediate, sexual and all consuming. A sad, dark tale all round. Culminating in the death of a child, suicide and the destruction of a seemingly normal woman (Stella). I was quite intrigued by the dark turn of Dr. Peter Cleave, a friend to all. He came out in this story as a kind of malignant presence, who masqueraded as the opposite. This was a dark and often sad tale, but life is not happy for most of us. The descriptions of the bleak Welsh countryside resonated deeply. This is a worthy, well written tale, but very dark and heavy, very sad and you will feel like weeping over what happens to the characters. Brilliant writing, crafty suspense, and a real insight into the heaviness of the heart. Review: Page turner - Fascinating story of obsession. A beautiful woman and a psychopath fall in lust. Stella is a completely self-absorbed character who causes great harm to those who love her. She throws herself at the wrong man and they begin a strange relationship that excludes reality. I couldn't put the book down and found it well written and mesmerizing. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #862,877 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #5,155 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #9,816 in Psychological Thrillers (Books) #24,795 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (605) | | Dimensions | 5.19 x 0.62 x 8 inches | | ISBN-10 | 0679781382 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0679781387 | | Item Weight | 8 ounces | | Language | English | | Print length | 272 pages | | Publication date | March 3, 1998 | | Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | ## Images ![Asylum - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71kUVVcn8TL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I highly recommend this book *by C***Y on November 4, 2014* I highly recommend this book. Not a tale for the fragile of heart. Stella, a vibrant woman, seemingly overlooked by her husband, becomes entangled with a psychiatric patient at the hospital where they are stationed. The patient is Edgar Stark and the attraction is immediate, sexual and all consuming. A sad, dark tale all round. Culminating in the death of a child, suicide and the destruction of a seemingly normal woman (Stella). I was quite intrigued by the dark turn of Dr. Peter Cleave, a friend to all. He came out in this story as a kind of malignant presence, who masqueraded as the opposite. This was a dark and often sad tale, but life is not happy for most of us. The descriptions of the bleak Welsh countryside resonated deeply. This is a worthy, well written tale, but very dark and heavy, very sad and you will feel like weeping over what happens to the characters. Brilliant writing, crafty suspense, and a real insight into the heaviness of the heart. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Page turner *by B***Y on August 10, 2019* Fascinating story of obsession. A beautiful woman and a psychopath fall in lust. Stella is a completely self-absorbed character who causes great harm to those who love her. She throws herself at the wrong man and they begin a strange relationship that excludes reality. I couldn't put the book down and found it well written and mesmerizing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Hellish Marriage is the Real Asylum *by M***N on February 16, 2003* A psychiatrist narrator recounts how his "friends" (we begin to wonder the narrator's true motives as the novel moves along), fellow psychiatrist Max and Max's wife Stella, suffer a failed marriage. Max is effete, inept, egotistical, completely lacking in passion and intimacy. His whole life is defined by his work at an asylum for criminal patients. Stella's marriage to Max in a way is the real asylum. Tormented by passions and lusts, Stella begins a completely irrational affair with one of the patients, thus beginning a whole new kind of torture. This is a novel of extremes--extreme loneliness, extreme passion, extreme repression, extreme self-abandonment. Humans were not designed for healthy relationships, the narrator seems to be saying, and thus are doomed to a life of imprisonment whether it be that of the frosty cell of a passionless marriage or the mercurial tumult of illicit sexual passion. McGrath has created an assured, suspensful novel wrought with psychological complexity and universal themes, which makes it one of the best novels in the last ten years or so. If you enjoy this novel, I hope you will try James Lasdun's The Horned Man, another great novel about repression told by a dubious narrator, and a perfect complement to Asylum. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.at/products/24446191-asylum](https://www.desertcart.at/products/24446191-asylum) --- *Product available on Desertcart Austria* *Store origin: AT* *Last updated: 2026-05-04*