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James Lasdun

Biography

James Lasdun

James Lasdun is the author of AFTERNOON OF A FAUN, THE FALL GUY, THE HORNED MAN and SEVEN LIES, several poetry and short story collections, and a memoir. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches creative writing at The New School and lives in upstate New York.

James Lasdun

Books by James Lasdun

by James Lasdun - Fiction

When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault, expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is brought rapidly to the brink of ruin. Marco confides in a close friend, the unnamed narrator, who finds himself caught between the obligations of friendship and an increasingly urgent desire to uncover the truth --- until the question of his own complicity becomes impossible to avoid.

by James Lasdun - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

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. 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?