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31 produkter
Family Man
Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh
Av James Lasdun
Inbunden, 2026
254 kr
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Justice may have been served, but the human element of the story didn't seem to add up. What drove a loving family man with everything to lose to become a killer?‘A masterclass in calm, hard reasoning’ HELEN GARNER''One of our very best true crime documentarians... Riveting' JOYCE CAROL OATES'The …
Water Sessions
Av James Lasdun
Häftad, 2012
139 kr
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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 political, Water Sessions brilliantly registers the shock …
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses
Av Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
369 kr
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Woman Police Officer in Elevator
Poems
Av James Lasdun
Häftad, 1998
238 kr
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With this, his second collection of poetry, James Lasdun consolidates his reputation as a writer of rich, emotionally charged poems of utter virtuosity. The poems in this book concern themselves with transformations, dislocations, and metamorphoses. Vividly rendered landscapes from Tuscany to New …
Besieged
Av James Lasdun
Häftad, 2000
320 kr
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His work has been described by the New York Times Book Review as an "elegant pathology report on the modern soul," and the Village Voice calls his prose "art that burrows into troubling new territory even as it glides by like a dream." Besieged shows his gift for exploring the undertones of …
Landscape with Chainsaw
Poems
Av James Lasdun
Häftad, 2003
238 kr
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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 central image—all manner of human traits are …
Horned Man
A Novel
Av James Lasdun
Häftad, 2003
288 kr
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The Horned Man opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying tale of a man losing his place in the world. As Lawrence Miller—an English expatriate and professor of gender studies—tells the story of what appears to be an elaborate conspiracy to frame him for a …
Seven Lies
A Novel
Av James Lasdun
Häftad, 2006
290 kr
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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 going to America. By a series of increasingly dangerous maneuvers, …
Fall Guy
A Novel
Av James Lasdun
Häftad, 2017
256 kr
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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 …
Afternoon of a Faun
A Novel
Av James Lasdun
Häftad, 2020
195 kr
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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. Marco confides in a close friend, the unnamed narrator, who finds himself caught between the obligations of friendship and an increasingly urgent desire to uncover the …
Family Man
Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh
Av James Lasdun
Inbunden, 2026
243 kr
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In March 2023, Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and younger son at Moselle, their home in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. In The Family Man, James Lasdun takes a new angle on this story of corruption in high places, massive fraud, opioid abuse, fake suicides, suspicious accidents, …
Seven Lies
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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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 ambitious mother and a kind but unlucky diplomat, Stefan …
Landscape With Chainsaw
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2010
79 kr
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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 ago. Questions of exile and belonging, cutting ties …
Horned Man
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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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 womanising colleague under investigation for sexual …
Siege
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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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 examines the callousness by which adults lose influence …
Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria
Revised Edition
E-bok, 2004
202 kr
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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" SECTION AND EXTEND INTO THE WALKS THEMSELVES. FROM SIX OR SO …
It's Beginning To Hurt
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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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 seethe with love, hate, desire, fear, tender corruption …
Give Me Everything You Have
On Being Stalked
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2013
144 kr
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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 – much of it violently anti-Semitic …
Water Sessions
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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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 political, Water Sessions brilliantly registers the shock …
Fall Guy
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2017
102 kr
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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 fault lines.When a fourth person arrives, the …
Victory
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2019
102 kr
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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 English today… An instant masterpiece’ Johanna …
Family Man
Blood and Betrayal in the House of Murdaugh
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2026
357 kr
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Justice may have been served, but the human element of the story didn't seem to add up. What drove a loving family man with everything to lose to become a killer?‘A masterclass in calm, hard reasoning’ HELEN GARNER''One of our very best true crime documentarians... Riveting' JOYCE CAROL OATES'The …
Fall Guy
Av James Lasdun
Häftad, 2018
122 kr
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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 fault lines.When a fourth person arrives, the …
Victory
Av James Lasdun
Häftad, 2020
126 kr
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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 English today… An instant masterpiece’ Johanna …
Victoria
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2021
178 kr
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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. …
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Diario de un acoso
Av James Lasdun
E-bok, 2022
154 kr
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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. …
