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James Lasdun
The Fall Guy
2018. 272 p. 198 mm
Verlag/Jahr: RANDOM HOUSE UK; VINTAGE 2018
ISBN: 1-78470-398-2 (1784703982)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-78470-398-1 (9781784703981)
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An idyllic summer retreat becomes a stage for lies, lust and revenge in this psychological thriller.
Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountain-top house over the summer. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines.
When a fourth person arrives, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. Who is the real victim? Who is the perpetrator? And who, ultimately, is the fall guy?
"Engaging, effortlessly readable... Lasdun´s writing style is clean and straightforward. All the complexity resides in character and detail. This is masterfully controlled 2am noir." Lionel Shriver Financial Times
James Lasdun´s books include The Horned Man 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 Skarsg†rd.