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Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, 1st American ed, No Longer Available.
Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, 1st American ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats
The stories in this remarkable collection--including "An Anxious Man," winner of the National Short Story Prize (UK)--are vibrant and gripping. James Lasdun's great gift is his unfailing psychological instinct for the vertiginous moments when the essence of a life discloses itself. With forensic skill he exposes his characters' hidden desires and fears, drawing back the folds of their familiar self-delusions, their images of themselves, their habits and routines, to reveal their interior lives with brilliant clarity.
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