The Fall Guy by James Lasdun

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: James Lasdun
• Title: The Fall Guy
• Publisher: ‎ W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.; First Edition (October 18, 2016)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Library Binding – 245 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0393292320
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0393292329
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.1 lbs.
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.9 x 1 x 8.6 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (Former Library book. Minor discoloration on pages / page edges.) This copy has been read, but all pages are intact and cover is in good condition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Plastic Library Dust Jacket)
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge.

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.

About the Author:

James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in the US. He has published novels, a memoir, collections of poetry and books of short stories.

His most recent books are Bluestone: New and Selected Poems and Victory, a pair of short novels, one of which, Afternoon of a Faun is published separately in the US (the other was previously published in the Paris Review). With Jonathan Nossiter 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 Skarsgaard. With Michael Hofmann he edited the anthology After Ovid: New Metamorphoses.

His essays and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, Granta, The London Review of Books, The New York Times, The Guardian and The New Yorker.

His work has been widely translated and won numerous awards, including the inaugural BBC National Short Story Award. He has been a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the LA Times Book Prize.

His first novel, The Horned Man, was a New York Times Notable Book, and his second, Seven Lies, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.