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hardback | English
Published:
7 February, 2019
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781787331174 |
| ISBN10 | 1787331172 |
| Number Of Pages | 272 |
| Item Weight | 389 g |
| Product Dimensions | 27 x 222 x 144 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Jonathan Cape |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
Afternoon of a Faun is a brilliantly imagined, devastatingly insightful and powerfully rendered novel of sexual exploitation and betrayal. Like all of James Lasdun's work, it is meticulously written and intelligent, both a novel of ideas and a cautionary tale for the #MeToo era. Its ending is bitterly ironic, or perhaps just darkly funny, depending upon one's perspective - and Afternoon of a Faun is about the very drama of perspective . -- Joyce Carol Oates
In an era of sexual reckonings and defunct male prerogatives , any decades-old fling is a ticking time bomb an ambivalent ex can choose to detonate at whim. Yet who's to say what actually happened? Afternoon of a Faun is an exquisitely rendered tale of moral arithmetic, erotic murkiness, and men's fascination with other men's scorecards. It's also Lasdun at his most pleasurably diabolical. -- Laura Kipnis
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Author's Bio
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 Skarsgard.