James Lasdun
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"It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. As readers of James Lasdun's acclaimed fiction can expect, The Fall...
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Taut, stylish, and psychologically acute, Afternoon of a Faun dramatizes the search for truth as an accusation of sexual assault plunges a journalist into a series of deepening crises.
When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault in her memoir, expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is brought rapidly and inexorably to the brink of ruin. His reputation and livelihood at stake, Marco confides in a close friend, who finds himself caught between...
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"A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive best Two men grapple with jumper cables, trying "to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm; machinery." A man on his way to see his therapist encounters a female police officer in an elevator and feels himself regressing to "the original essence, the masculine / criminal salt." A teenager is tricked into eating a spoonful of lime pickle by his girlfriend's...
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A lo largo de la historia se han escrito innumerables textos sobre el deseo y especialmente sobre el deseo en la relación sexual. En todos ellos aparece el juego, que muchas veces tiene que ver con la relación espectral, la de verte en el otro y la de verte a tí mismo y al otro como un espectro. James Lasdun, en plena vivencia de acoso por parte de una de sus alumnas de Escritura Creativa en Princeton, decide viajar a lugares de culto creados bajo...
6) Victoria
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Se trata de dos novelas cortas de gran calado psicológico. Lasdun está considerado el Chéjov del siglo XXI. Los temas son de gran actualidad: la explotación sexual y la traición. Escritas con gran inteligencia, tratan del amor y el sexo, en nuestra era. Advierte de los peligros del movimiento MeToo. En esta época en la que se vive el final de las prerrogrativas masculinas, representa de manera exquisita la ambigüedad moral y la facinación...
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A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled verbal terrorist, who began trying, in her words, to 'ruin him.' Hate mail, online postings, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her weapons of choice and, as with more conventional terrorist weapons, proved remarkably difficult to combat....
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Feathered Glory explores themes of male friendship, waning middle-aged powers and sexual transgression in a way that couldn't feel more timely. The marriage of a school professor and artist reveals dangerous fault-lines when an old lover reappears in the husband's life and the wife, fascinated by a charismatic wildlife rehabilitator, brings an injured swan into their home.
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