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Seven Lies
Seven Lies
hardback
Published:
9 February, 2006
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780224075923 |
| ISBN10 | 0224075926 |
| Number Of Pages | 208 |
| Item Weight | 321 g |
| Product Dimensions | 144 x 26 x 216 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Format | hardback |
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James Lasdun is a tremendous writer and Seven Lies is that rare thing, a novel that delivers on every level. It is so gripping that you want to gobble it down at a single sitting, and yet the prose is so exacting that you want to linger over every sentence Geoff Dyer The imaginativeness with which he explores the politics of expectation and failure runs deep... Seven Lies combines the knuckle-whitening tension of a thriller with literary wit and the precision of a surgeon seeking to tease out rotten flesh. Definitely a novel to be admired Economist A brilliant and darkly funny tale of politics and paranoia -- Christina Patterson Independent Lasdun's second novel has much of the thriller about it. But its more sinuous power comes from other duplicities in Stefan's previous life: a glorious section of the book involves his teenage self plagiarising Walt Whitman to impress his mother's salon, all the while bribing a pederast janitor with aquavit to gain access to the source material -- Alex Clark Observer Seven Lies...has a way of enlarging the spirit and refreshing the mind far more comprehensively than many books with twice its 200 pages -- James Buchan Guardian
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Author's Bio
James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published two collections of short stories, three books of poetry and a novel, The Horned Man. His story 'The Siege' was adapted by Bernardo Bertolucci for his film Beseiged. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film Sunday (based on another of his stories) which won Best Feature and Best Screenplay awards at Sundance, 1997. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, and currently teaches poetry and fiction workshops at Princeton.