James Lasdun
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London, The United Kingdom
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The Fall Guy
23 editions
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2016
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Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked
20 editions
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2013
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The Horned Man
25 editions
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2002
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Afternoon of a Faun
10 editions
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2019
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It's Beginning to Hurt
12 editions
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2009
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Seven Lies
18 editions
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published
2005
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Victory
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Besieged
7 editions
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1999
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Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria, Revised Edition
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10 editions
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1997
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Landscape With Chainsaw
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2001
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“People are always in various stages of different dramas when you encounter them: freshly embarked on some, halfway or more through others. One is always approaching the denouement of this or that subplot of one’s life. And you, the stranger, entering the picture in all your blundering innocence, may well be the catalyst for some long-awaited climax.”
― Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked
― Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked
“She waded into the water, splashing it on her waist and shoulders before kicking herself free of the ground and plunging in. She swam out from the shore, covering yards with each thrust of her strong arms and legs. Her body churned the water into bronze scoops and billows that fanned out behind her, tiger-striping the surface with big ripples. Jackson watched her, his mind a jumble of desire and misgivings: the free abandon with which she plunged and twisted in the water had in it something distantly threatening as well as graceful. A dangerous self-sufficiency.”
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“I thought of the three of us—myself, Trumilcik, and Elaine—each present there via our more or less phantasmagorical versions of each other, our recondite emblems of ourselves. And for a moment I felt I was at the point of grasping what it was that made the full unfolding of another human being into one’s consciousness so painfully dazzling that one spent one’s life contriving ways of filtering them, blocking them out, setting up labyrinthine passageways between oneself and them, kidnapping their images for various exploitative purposes of one’s own, and generally doing all one could to fend off their problematic, objective reality. The phone rang.”
― The Horned Man: A Novel
― The Horned Man: A Novel
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