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Jack Rathborne è un pittore. A soli diciassette anni si innamora perdutamente di Vera Savage, anche lei artista. Alla ricerca dell'ispirazione e della concentrazione necessarie alla loro opera, si trasferiscono ai Tropici, a Port Mungo. Dopo un periodo idilliaco, Vera cade nella spirale dell'alcol e del tradimento e sarà Jack a occuparsi della figlia Peg. Fino a quando la ragazza, sfuggita al controllo del padre e sedotta dalla vita dissoluta ...

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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...

1832: mentre a New York imperversa il colera, un uomo si aggira per la città fantasma, confessando le proprie responsabilità nella cattura e nella morte della madre, spia dell'esercito di George Washington in una Manhattan occupata dagli inglesi. 1850: un giovane pittore cade nella spirale della follia dopo la misteriosa sparizione della modella di cui era perdutamente innamorato. 2001: una donna che ha perso il suo amante negli attacchi terro...

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Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, Spider is a tale of horror and madness, storytelling and skepticism, a novel whose dizzying style lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror.

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 ...

At any one time at least five million people in the United States are experiencing the symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

The bestselling author of "Asylum" and a master of contemporary psychological terror returns with a riveting novel about a psychiatrist who treats trauma patients and experiences some traumas of his own.

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One of the most gifted actors of the 1930s and 1940s, John Garfield is too little remembered today. His gritty, true-to-life performances in 35 films, including "Body and Soul, " which was one of the first movies to raise the ugly specter of race relations in the United States, and in 16 Broadway productions were all highly acclaimed. This generously illustrated work examines the actor's personal and professional life, recounting a bygone era ...

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When Ambrose Tree is summoned by his ancient uncle to the brooding mansion Drogo Hall, he suspects it's to hear the old man's dying words and then collect a sizable inheritance. He has no idea he is about to learn the bizarre story of Harry Peake, Cornish smuggler turned poet who became a monster capable of the most horrifying acts. Or that he's about to become psychologically enmeshed in the riveting life of Harry's daughter, Martha, who flee...