books by James Lasdun

books by James Lasdun

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James Lasdun

James Lasdun

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Haunting literary thriller
I read this book several years ago and still think about its eery chacaters and storyline. It's essentially a mystery-thriller, but the themes underlying the story are haunting, having to do with identity, love, and obsession. I couldn't put it down. And it's so ...

Seven Lies: A Novel

James Lasdun

W. W. Norton, 2006

Where is the audience for this masterpiece!!
I can't believe that there is only one review for this book. Lasdun is one of our truly beautiful modern authors. But his style timeless. This read will truly take you along the downward spiral into the rotted soul of a battered man. You can see the corrosion of ...

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1994

These stories never age. They metamorphosize.
A collection of stories that we grew up hearing, but with all new skin. These re-tellings give new blood to Ovid and infuse his timeless book with modern spirit. Give: Apollo and Daphne packs a punch with its Elivs-like god and neo-feminist victim. A bevy of ...

It's Beginning to Hurt: Stories
James Lasdun

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

The stories in this remarkable collection are vibrant and gripping. James Lasdun?s great gift is his unfailing psychological instinct for the vertiginous moments when the essence of a life discloses itself. With forensic skill he exposes his characters? hidden desires and fears, drawing back the folds of their familiar self-delusions, their images ...

Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria: Revised Edition (Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria)

James Lasdun, Pia Davis

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004

New Updated Edition Available Now
The original edition of this book, written nearly ten years ago, needed updating, so we went back to Italy, this time with two young children. We've updated the original walks and restaurant reviews and added some new walks and locations. If you are thinking of ...

The Woman Who Rode Away; St. Mawr; The Princess (Penguin Classics)
D. H. Lawrence

Penguin Classics, 2007

Three revelatory novellas by a twentieth-century master The works collected here explore the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. The Woman Who Rode Away follows one woman?s religious quest in Mexico. St. Mawr displays Lawrence?s mastery of satire in a scathing depiction of London?s ...

As a Man Grows Older (New York Review Books Classics)

Italo Svevo, James Lasdun

NYRB Classics, 2001

Compassionate and clear-eyed: a masterpiece
I don't think Svevo is an artist that can be ruined or even significantly damaged by a translation, any more than Tolstoy can be messed up by Constance Garnett - it may not be as true to the quality of their prose, but for the most part I think their rare value is ...

Moon Walking and Eating in Provence (Moon Handbooks)
James Lasdun, Pia Davis

Avalon Travel Publishing, 2008

Foodie authors James Lasdun and Pia Davis offer forty walks through the extraordinary landscape of Provence, each specially designed to combine natural beauty, historical interest and, of course, world-class local cuisine. James and Pia offer a wide array of itineraries, from multi-day adventures that are linked by train to short half-day ...

Besieged

James Lasdun

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

Theme of Possession and Loss of Free Will Pervades
Pointing to the major themes that are present in his masterpiece of a novel The Horned Man, these stories capture an array of seemingly normal people who become possessed by urges, compulsions, life forces, unsavory spirits, and uncanny inclinations that defy their ...

Landscape with Chainsaw: Poems

James Lasdun

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

A Great Clearing in the Forest
In the forest of contemporary poetry most of what grows seems to obstruct passage, kill the view, and generally make the world darker. You need a machete, or better yet a chainsaw, just to cut through to sunlight. Very occasionally, however, one stumbles across a ...

La llamada del apóstol Mateo.(TT: The call of the apostle Mateo.): An article from: Letras Libres
James Lasdun

Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V., 2000

This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on May 1, 2000. The length of the article is 386 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can ...