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 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...

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...

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...

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....

Madeleine wakes one Sunday to face her stagnant acting career and failing marriage. That same day, unemployed computer technician Oliver finds himself in a homeless shelter. When Madeleine mistakes Oliver for a film director, they spend the day together.