Feathered Glory

by James Lasdun

Feathered Glory explores themes of Male friendship, waning middle-aged powers,and sexual transgressions in a way that couldn't feel more timely. The marriage of a school professor and artist reveals dangerous fault lines when an old lover reappears in the husbands life, and the wife, fascinated by a charismatic wildlife rehabilitator, brings an injured swan into their home.

Audiobook

Published August 20, 2019

About the author

James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published two novels as well as several collections of short stories and poetry. He has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the Los Angeles Times, T. S. Eliot, and Forward prizes in poetry; and he was the winner of the inaugural U.K./BBC Short Story Prize. His nonfiction has been published in Harper’s Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books.

Reviews

[Irina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like his style and language. But the endings are very much similar in many stories, symbolic, open and a bit artificial for the lack of a better word. I find these finales to seem like a hommage to some literary genre, not organic or original. Still a beautiful read and highly recommended