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Dan and his friends, Abby and Jordan, decided to take a road trip the summer after senior year. On their way to visit Jordan's uncle in New Orleans, the friends realize they're being followed and photographed. Dan begins to receive messages from someone who died last Halloween and the strange occurrences only escalate once they reach New Orleans. Dan realizes that the disturbing events that have happened to him might not be coincidence, but fate. His past might be connected to a group called the Bone Artists, who are disturbingly interested in past killers. Dan just hopes he can make it out of this road trip alive with his life. [2] Books [ edit ] The brilliant interplay of the dialogue, and cast of characters, pulled me in, as well as the intricacies of the plot set up. Felix Sheridan: Dan's roommate at Brookline. He's described as "a lanky teenager...dressed like a door-to-door missionary in a starched white shirt, dark tie, and pleated trousers." [5] McGrath may even be an acquired taste, though not for me. I liked him immediately. That may be because I started off with the right book. Avevo buone aspettative per questo romanzo. Avevo sentito parlare bene di McGrath, del suo stile e delle sue storie. E questa storia sembrava promettere bene, almeno a giudicare dalla quarta di copertina e, perchè no, dal primo centinaio di pagine. Purtroppo l'impressione era destinata a mutare molto presto.

Just as Edgar seems to relish the idea of bedding a psychiatrist's wife, so too does Stella enjoy her role as caretaker. Edgar is ill; therefore, Stella must take care of him, even if it means abandoning her husband and her child. The child she increasingly grows to resent because he is part of his father and therefore part of the imagined trap she feels exists around her. 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. The book comprises four free-standing essays On the Characteristics of Total Institutions, The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, The Underlife of a Public Institution and The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization.

Preso dalla foga di voler creare un'eroina romantica, McGrath prende Stella e la trasforma in un coacervo di assurdi pensieri, che di follia hanno ben poco. La protagonista assoluta del romanzo è di una inconsistenza spaventosa: non c'è alcun filo logico nel suo sviluppo narrativo, e non c'è un filo logico nel suo ritratto psicologico.

And then Stella’s treating psychologist wants to marry her when her treatment is done? Perhaps if he kept his mind out of his own pants and actually concentrated on Stella he wouldn’t have been too late in the end. Stella obviously needs help, but all the men in this book are trying so hard to either get in her pants or contribute to her misery, she doesn’t get what she ultimately needs. And she must submit to them, even if it's not what she wants. This leads me to my next point.......... Asylums: Essays on the Condition of the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates is a 1961 collection of four essays by the sociologist Erving Goffman. Cleave is narrating the novel, yes, but he is doing so after discussions with Stella, after something has apparently gone badly wrong, and the impending sense of doom only adds to the novel's complexity. Not that Asylum is a mystery. It isn't. Edgar murdered his wife. He escapes from the asylum. Stella goes to him. Nothing surprising here. When Edgar begins exhibiting erratic behavior, though, she runs. However, the story doesn't take the reader into the places you'd think it would. Stella is not repentant. Instead, she feels torn from her lover and sorrowful that she ever suspected his behavior. Willing, even after knowing the full extent of his crime, to go to him and be with him, and Cleave notes this: Side note: Are all Stellas sexual beings ruled by their animal instincts and the urging of their loins? The primitive, debasing relationship between Stella and Edgar drew a strong parallel to another sexually-charged relationship tinted with domestic violence penned by Tennessee Williams and made forever famous by Marlon Brando.This story is a warning: the mind can make bad plays when entering an underworld where nothing is what it seems and is experienced with it. There will always be consequences ... And they will not be pleasant at all Synopsis [ edit ] Asylum (2013) [ edit ]

Max è un uomo completamente assorbito dal suo lavoro e dalle sue ambizioni; talmente occupato dalla voglia di curare la psiche dei suoi pazienti da non accorgersi di chi gli sta vicino e dei problemi che iniziano a crescere in modo incontrollabile.Peter è il principale narratore di questa storia; psichiatra da molti anni nella clinica dove ora si trova Max, ha in cura Edgar. Nonostante voglia apparire distaccato, freddo e professionale, più volte durante la narrazione si lascia andare, dando voce ai suoi sentimenti e alle sue ossessioni più intime: Stella ed Edgar.

Asylum is a New York Times bestselling young adult horror novel series by Madeleine Roux. [1] The series is composed of four novels, Asylum, Sanctum, Catacomb, and Escape from Asylum and three novellas: The Scarlets, The Bone Artists, and The Warden. Follia parla di un amore oscuro, passionale e violento; un sentimento deleterio, perturbante e folle. Era così che volevo iniziare la mia recensione maaaaa....sono una voce fuori dal coro (e dire che che non sono poi così stonata ma tant'è). The Warden (Daniel Crawford): He was the warden at Brookline when it was an asylum. His experiments focused on immortality and he was focused on spreading his "legacy". Ho empatizzato solo con Edgrar alla fine e qui però mi faccio un paio di domande io :"tutto bene Laura? Sicura di aver capito che cos'ha fatto Edgar alla ex moglie?"La sua identificazione con Edgar diventava ogni giorno più profonda. Mi disse che stava assumendo consapevolmente tutti i suoi gusti, le sue idee, i suoi sentimenti. The series follows sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, who was chosen to attend a prestigious college preparatory summer program in New Hampshire. Once there he befriends two other teens, Abby and Jordan, with whom he explores an old psychiatric hospital that has been re-purposed into a student dormitory. However, what they find ends up drawing them into old and disturbing recurring events. In the way, they will uncover the secrets that link them to the terrifying things that happen inside the Asylum walls. Edgar Stark is Cleave's patient, and Edgar's intelligence fascinates the doctor. Edgar murdered his wife and brutalized her body after suspecting her of multiple infidelities for many years. Edgar feels completely justified in his actions, and Cleave counts Edgar one of his more interesting patients because of this. It is only when Cleave observes subtle changes in Stella that he suspects the impossible. When Edgar escapes from the facility, Max and Stella both come under scrutiny, leading to a chain of events that is both disturbing and engrossing.