James Lasdun - Böcker

A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the authors 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...

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THIS BOOK, NOW THOROUGHLY REVISED AND UPDATED, IS WRITTEN TO SATISFY READERS WHO WANT TO BUILD THEIR HOLIDAY AROUND WALKING, OR THOSE WHO SIMPLY WANT TO INTEGRATE A BIT OF WALKING INTO THEIR HOLIDAY. IT BEGINS WITH A "PRACTICALITIES" SEC...

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James Lasdun's new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new themes and old obsessions. At once personal and politi...

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THE "ATLANTIC MONTHLY" BEST BOOKS OF 2009 THE "WALL STREET JOURNAL" BEST FICTION OF 2009 "LIBRARY JOURNAL" BEST BOOKS OF 2009 FAVORITE FICTION OF 2009 FROM THE "LOS ANGELES TIMES "James Lasdun's great gift i...

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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...

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A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate in the crucible of the digital age.Give Me Everything You Have chronicles author James Lasdun's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled "e;verbal ter...

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A generous selection that shows the poet James Lasdun at his lyrically inventive bestTwo men grapple with jumper cables, trying "e;to make a stand // in this last corner of our realm; machinery . . ."e; A man on his way to see his therapis...

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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 i...

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Blending the classical with the cosmopolitan, the poems in this emotionally charged collection concern themselves with transformations, dislocations, and metamorphoses of every kind. High-voltage encounters - with a police officer in a New York el...

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These narratives are set against a variety of backdrops - from the teeming banks of the Ganges to a homeless shelter in New York. In Ate/Menos or The Miracle, a young man takes advantage of a woman who mistakes him for someone else. In The Siege, ...

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An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. In the chainsaw the book's ...

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Lawrence Miller, English expatriate and professor of gender studies, tells the story of what appears to be an elaborate conspiracy to frame him for a series of brutal killings a world of subtly deceptive appearances where the most nightmarish acts...

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Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, "Seven Lies" tells the story of Stefan Vogel, a young East German, whose yearnings for love, glory, and freedom express themselves in a lifelong fantasy of go...

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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 i...

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When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault, expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is brought rapidly to the brink of ruin. His reputation at stake, Marco confides in a close friend, who finds himself caught between the obligations of friend...

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"The truth might be hard to bring to light, but that didn't mean it didn't exist, because it did exist: fixed in its moment, unalterable, and certainly not a matter of `belief.' " When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault in her me...

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE** Stefan Vogel, a young man growing up in the former East Germany, longs for love, glory and freedom - yearnings that express themselves in a lifelong fantasy of going to America. The hopeless son of an ambiti...

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James Lasdun's third book of poems explores the themes and tensions of his last two with a new boldness and exuberance, in a series of poems about life in the Catskill mountains outside Woodstock, where the author moved with his family some years ...

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Lawrence Miller, an English expatriate in New York, tells the story of what appears to be an elaborate conspiracy to frame him for a series of brutal killings. The intricate plot entangles Miller, a teacher of Gender Studies, in the lives of a wom...

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This collection combines stories from his previous books THE SILVER AGE and THREE EVENINGS. In these stories James Lasdun views greed and excess from illuminating angles and the impulse of those who own too much to dispossess themselves. He examin...

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The stories in this remarkable collection-including "e;An Anxious Man,"e; winner of the National Short Story Prize (UK)-are vibrant and gripping. James Lasdun's great gift is his unfailing psychological instinct for the vertiginous moments...

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In sharply evoked settings that range from the wilds of Northern Greece to the beaches of Cape Cod, these intensely dramatic tales chart the metamorphoses of their characters as they fall prey to the gamut of human passions. The lives in them seet...

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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...

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James Lasdun''s new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection Landscape with Chainsaw , applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new themes and old obsessions. At once personal and poli...

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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. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its ...

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020**Two timely novellas exploring male sexual violence, power and corruption Victory makes a convincing case for James Lasdun as one of the most incisive investigators of the human heart writing in Eng...

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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. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its ...

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020** Two timely novellas exploring male sexual violence, power and corruption 'Victory makes a convincing case for James Lasdun as one of the most incisive investigators of the human heart writing in E...

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