The Fall Guy
James Lasdun
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$25.95
$24.13
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
October 18, 2016
Pages
256
Dimensions
5.7 X 0.9 X 8.3 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780393292329
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About the Author
James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published novels, including The Horned Man, as well as several collections of short stories and poetry. He is the author of Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked. He has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the Los Angeles Times, T. S. Eliot, and Forward prizes in poetry; and he was the winner of the inaugural U.K./BBC Short Story Prize. His nonfiction has been published in Harper's Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books.
Reviews
[A] terrific novel of suspense. . . Lasdun presents the inexorable turnings of fate in a subtle and disconcerting way.
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.
As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in Lasdun's combustible psychological thriller.
Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same time. . . a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has been stalked.
Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations.
Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal.--Lionel Shriver
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.
As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in Lasdun's combustible psychological thriller.
Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same time. . . a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has been stalked.
Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations.
Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal.--Lionel Shriver
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