The Fall Guy by 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 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? Darkly vivid, with an atmosphere of erotic danger, The Fall Guy is Lasdun’s most entertaining novel yet.
"Exceptionally entertaining. . . The Fall Guy reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith. . . . This is exactly what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift, unsettling. [Lasdun] deserves to find more readers on these shores." -- New York Times Book Review
"Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations." -- Wall Street Journal
"Aptly described as the literary descendant of Dostoevsky and Patricia Highsmith. . . . The Fall Guy is a twisty, chilly, exquisitely written, and tautly suspenseful exploration of big ideas in the guise of a psychological thriller." -- Boston Globe
"Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal." -- Lionel Shriver - Financial Times
"Expertly playing the noir card, Lasdun dissects the mercurial relationships among a wealthy financier, his photographer wife and an aimless cousin during a long hot summer in upstate New York. There are plenty of lies and betrayals in this stylish thriller, but it’s the slow burn of obsession that makes it sing." -- People
"As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in Lasdun’s combustible psychological thriller." -- Entertainment Weekly
"Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same time. . . a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has been stalked." -- Seattle Review of Books
"[A] terrific novel of suspense. . . Lasdun presents the inexorable turnings of fate in a subtle and disconcerting way." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations." -- Wall Street Journal
"Aptly described as the literary descendant of Dostoevsky and Patricia Highsmith. . . . The Fall Guy is a twisty, chilly, exquisitely written, and tautly suspenseful exploration of big ideas in the guise of a psychological thriller." -- Boston Globe
"Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal." -- Lionel Shriver - Financial Times
"Expertly playing the noir card, Lasdun dissects the mercurial relationships among a wealthy financier, his photographer wife and an aimless cousin during a long hot summer in upstate New York. There are plenty of lies and betrayals in this stylish thriller, but it’s the slow burn of obsession that makes it sing." -- People
"As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in Lasdun’s combustible psychological thriller." -- Entertainment Weekly
"Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same time. . . a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has been stalked." -- Seattle Review of Books
"[A] terrific novel of suspense. . . Lasdun presents the inexorable turnings of fate in a subtle and disconcerting way." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published two novels, as well as several collections of short stories and poetry. He has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times, T. S. Eliot, and Forward prizes in poetry, and he was the winner of the inaugural BBC National Short Story Award. His nonfiction has been published in Harper's Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books. READER BIO
Robin was born and raised in London, England, and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). After RADA, Robin spent time performing everything from Shakespeare to Tom Stoppard and touring various parts of the known world. His British TV appearances include Brideshead Revisited, Upstairs Downstairs, and Rumpole of the Bailey. He is probably best known in America for his role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as being in several films.
Robin was born and raised in London, England, and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). After RADA, Robin spent time performing everything from Shakespeare to Tom Stoppard and touring various parts of the known world. His British TV appearances include Brideshead Revisited, Upstairs Downstairs, and Rumpole of the Bailey. He is probably best known in America for his role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as being in several films.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393292329 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393292320 |
| Titel | The Fall Guy |
| Autor | James Lasdun |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | WW Norton & Co |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2016-11-18 |
| Seitenanzahl | 256 |
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