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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 Skarsg rd.
The word masterpiece is not one to throw around lightly but I was enthralled by James Lasdun's novella Afternoon of a Faun, from his collection Victory... it has the psychological precision of a Chekhov story. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * Evening Standard *Books of the Year* * Two superb novellas full of contemporary resonance... extraordinarily taut and compelling. * Spectator * [Victory makes] a convincing case for James Lasdun as one of the most incisive investigators of the human heart writing in English today... an instant masterpiece. * Observer * The novellas [in Victory] are united by Lasdun's signature virtues: a forensic attention to psychological detail, a mastery of dialogue and an all-round fluency that gives his prose a compelling swiftness. It is these virtues, more than the plots, that make Victory a triumph. * Literary Review * Timely and irresistibly unpleasant... sure to provoke passionate discussion... [Afternoon of a Faun] lingers after you have closed the book with a vividness that testifies to the compact virtues of the novella. * Guardian *
