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James Lasdun
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…
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Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountain-top house over the summer.
Love and hate, desire and guilt, friendship and betrayal form the coordinates of these two intensely dramatic stories of men and women caught between their irrational passions and the urge…
Superb… . Every page of this narration bears examples of Lasdun’s own poetic mastery… . Shockingly vivid. -Time Out
This excursion into panic and urban paranoia opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying story of a man losing his…
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Collects the stories that chart the metamorphoses of their characters as they fall prey to the gamut of human passions.
A second collection of poems by James Lasdun, all of which are concerned with characters who all fail to connect with each other, whether in Rome, Mexico, Surrey or New…
Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, this book tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a young man growing up in the former East Germany…
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.
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American readers who want to see rejuvenated form in untroubled action, giving brisk shape to contemporary and classical events, will find it in Lasdun. -Helen Vendler
James Lasdun’s two collections of short stories, Delirium Eclipse and Three Evenings, have won him outstanding praise as one of the most distinctive British writers of his generation, both as…
Brilliant ….certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English. -Anthony Hecht, author of The Darkness and the Light
Unputdownable…a masterpiece of chilling, mesmerizing control. -Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Slippery, provoking and very timely. -Wall Street Journal
James Lasdun (Princeton University)
A selection of poems spanning the career of noted British poet James Lasdun –
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…
In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their house guest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge.
Michael Hofmann
Though Arthur Golding’s translation of 1579, Ovid’s Metamorphoses was once the most popular Latin poem among English readers, this collection is a celebration of several translations of Ovid’s piece. It…
James Lasdun,Pia Davis
Offers a wide variety of half-day and full-day walks, incorporating the scenery and culture of the Italian regions of Tuscany and Umbria, and includes information about local food and wine…
D. H. Lawrence
A collection of three works exploring the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. The first story offers a depiction of London’s fashionable horse riding set…
