This is a story of self-obsession narrated by the point of view of a psychiatrist, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls ''the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.'' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair...
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Patrick McGrath nació en Londres en 1950. Es autor de dos libros de relatos y nueve novelas, entre ellas, Grotesco (adaptación cinematográfica de John-Paul Davidson), Spider (adaptación cinematográfica de David Cronenberg), Dr. Haggard's disease, La historia de Martha Peake, Locura(adaptación cinematográfica de David MacKenzie), Port Mungo, Trauma y Constance, publicados en Literatura Random House y DeBolsillo. Patrick McGrath forma parte de la generación de autores literarios más interesantes de los últimos años, entre los que destacan Ian McEwan o Martin Amis. La encargada de vestuario es su última novela.