It's Beginning to Hurt: [short stories]

James LASDUN

ISBN 10: 0099512327 / ISBN 13: 9780099512325

Published by London: Vintage Books, 2010

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Wrappers. First paperback edition (first published by Cape, 2009); signed by the author on the title-page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: It's Beginning to Hurt: [short stories]
• Publisher: London: Vintage Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099512327
• ISBN 13: 9780099512325
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.

Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award.

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.