Lying Together

by D.M. Thomas

Concluding the quintet "Russian Nights", this novel introduces Thomas himself - the narrator - as a character, a writer attending a conference in London who meets up with some old Russian friends. They reminisce and improvise stories for each other. The author's novels include "The White Hotel".

256 pages, Paperback

First published July 24, 1990

About the author

D.M. Thomas was born in Cornwall in 1935. After reading English at New College, Oxford, he became a teacher and was Head of the English Department at Hereford College of Education until he became a full-time writer. His first novel The Flute-Player won the Gollancz Pan/Picador Fantasy Competition. He is also known for his collections of verse and his translation from the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

He was awarded the Los Angeles Fiction prize for his novel The White Hotel, an international bestseller, translated into 30 languages; a Cholmondeley award for poetry; and the Orwell Prize for his biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He lives in his native Cornwall, England.

Reviews

[Connor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Horny cover... Actual contents got so meta that it started annoying me and then ultimately pulled me back in and won me over. While being so meta and wrapped up in its double entendre, with its multiple storylines and blurry lines between reality and fiction and even individual characters, the novel still felt small and intimate. If on a winters night a traveler ran so lying together could walk a decade later.