James Lasdun Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge. 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 character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. As readers of James Lasdun’s acclaimed fiction can expect, The Fall Guy is a complex moral tale as well as a gripping suspense story, probing questions of guilt and betrayal with ruthless incisiveness. Who is the real victim here? Who is the perpetrator? And who, ultimately, is the fall guy? Darkly vivid, with an atmosphere of erotic danger, The Fall Guy is Lasdun’s most entertaining novel yet.

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 "base towns," the authors offer routes of one or two hours, half day, and one, three, and five days. There are also some extraordinary walks worth going out of the way for. There are recommendations for restaurants, trattorias and pizzerias, as well as markets and other take-away options. Additionally, the book includes suggestions for lodging, transportation, flora and many other points of interest.

Diese Sammlung vereint Geschichten aus seinen vorherigen Büchern. In diesen Geschichten betrachtet James Lasdun Gier und Übermaß aus erhellenden Perspektiven und den Impuls derjenigen, die zu viel besitzen, um sich zu entäußern. Er untersucht die Gefühllosigkeit, mit der Erwachsene Einfluss auf Kinder verlieren, und die instinktiven Taktiken, die Kinder entwickeln, um Macht über Erwachsene zu gewinnen. Er zieht die Korruption in ihren einfallsreichen Erscheinungsformen zur Rechenschaft und erkennt die perverse Faszination menschlicher Schwächen an. Jede Geschichte entfaltet einen neugierigen Zauber, in dem Objekte und die natürliche Welt mit einer Aura des Magischen versehen sind. Eine sinnliche Lyrik der Prosa, die von einem witzigen und subtilen Intellekt geleitet wird, verleiht diesen Geschichten ihren ganz besonderen Geschmack.

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 over children and the instinctive tactics devised by children for gaining power over adults. He calls corruption, in its ingenious guises, to account while acknowledging the perverse fascination of human foibles. Each story casts a curious spell, in which objects and the natural world are tinged with an aura of the magical. A sensuous lyricism of prose governed by a witty and subtle intelligence brings these stories their very special flavour.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a primary metaphor for the often cataclysmic dynamics of life itself. For this book, British poets Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun have invited more than forty leading English-language poets to create their own idiomatic contemporary versions of some of the most famous and notorious myths from the Metamorphoses. Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Proserpina, Marsyas, Medea, Baucis and Philemon, Orpheus and Eurydice--these and many other immortal tales are given fresh and startling life in exciting new versions. The contributors--among them Fleur Adcock, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Lawrence Joseph, Kenneth Koch, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Robert Pinsky, Frederick Seidel, Charles Simic, and C. K. Williams--constitute an impressive roster of today's major poets. After Ovid is a powerful re-envisioning of a fundamental work of literature as well as a remarkable affirmation of the current state of poetry in English.

A collection of short stories by young British writers, this provides an introduction to the work of Iain Banks, Peter Benson, H.S. Bhabra, James Buchan, Patricia Ferguson, Ronald Frame, Patrick Gale, Carlo Gebler, James Lasdun, Deborah Levy, Adam Lively, Aidan Mathews, Candia McWilliam, Geoff Nicholson, Tim Parks, Philip Ridley, Joan Smith, Rupert Thomson, Daisy Waugh and Mathew Yorke. Many of these have already received critical acclaim. The collection is introduced by Graham Swift, author of "Waterland" and "Out of this World".

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Barbara Hellermann è stata uccisa in metropolitana con una spranga di ferro. Possibile che la spranga che Lawrence Miller ha trovato nascosta in ufficio sia quella con cui è stata uccisa Barbara? La Hellermann insegnava nella medesima università dove ora insegna Lawrence, un eccentrico e solitario professore inglese che da tempo risiede a New York. Tra i sospetti c'è Trumilcik, un visiting professor misteriosamente scomparso. La morte di Rosa Vasquez, anche lei uccisa a sprangate, per Lawrence è la prova definitiva: è una cospirazione ordita contro di lui da Trumilcik in combutta con Bruno Jackson, un collega oggetto d'indagine della Commissione Universitaria contro molestie sessuali.