James Lasdun

"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...

"When expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is accused of sexual assault in a former girlfriend's memoir, he confides in a close friend, who finds himself caught between loyalty to Marco and an urgent desire to uncover the truth." --

A lo largo de la historia se han escrito innumerables textos sobre el deseo y especialmente sobre el deseo en la relación sexual. En todos ellos aparece el juego, que muchas veces tiene que ver con la relación espectral, la de verte en el otro y la de verte a tí mismo y al otro como un espectro. James Lasdun, en plena vivencia de acoso por parte de una de sus alumnas de Escritura Creativa en Princeton, decide viajar a lugares de culto creados bajo...

Feathered Glory explores themes of male friendship, waning middle-aged powers and sexual transgression 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 husband's life and the wife, fascinated by a charismatic wildlife rehabilitator, brings an injured swan into their home.