IT'S BEGINNING TO HURT [Signed]

Lasdun, James

ISBN 10: 0224080903 / ISBN 13: 9780224080903

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, UK, 2009

About this Item

Octavo, 257 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black with light blue and white lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "£16.99" on front flap. Boards have mild scuffing and shelving wear along spine tail and front tail edge. Textblock edges have mild age-toning; mild age-toning throughout interior. Signed flat and dated "August 21st, '04" by James Lasdun. Shelved Room C. 1401289. Special Collections.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IT'S BEGINNING TO HURT [Signed]
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London, UK
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224080903
• ISBN 13: 9780224080903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

The stories in this remarkable collection are vibrant, gripping and intricately worked, but they are more than simply small masterpieces of narrative art. James Lasdun's other 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 of themselves, their habits and routines, to reveal them to themselves - and us - with brilliant clarity. In sharply evoked settings that range from the wilds of Northern Greece to the beaches of Cape Cod, these intensely dramatic tales chart the metamorphoses of their characters as they fall prey to the gamut of human passions.The lives in them seethe with love, hate, desire, fear, tender corruption and cruel idealism. They rise to unexpected heights of decency, stumble into comic or tragic folly, they throw themselves open to lust, longing, paranoia - but they are always recognisably, illuminatingly, our lives. As James Wood, the celebrated critic, has noted, 'James Lasdun seems to me to be one of the secret gardens of English writing...when we read him we know what language is for'. This collection of haunting, richly humane pieces - including the first winner of the National Short Story Award, 'An Anxious Man' - is further proof of the powers of enormously inventive writer.

About the Author

James Lasdun’s books include The Fall Guy and Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked. He teaches creative writing at Columbia University and reviews regularly for the Guardian. His work has been filmed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Besieged) and he co-wrote the films Sunday, which won Best Feature and Best Screenplay awards at Sundance, and Signs and Wonders, starring Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgård.