The Fall Guy, James Lasdun
The Fall Guy, James Lasdun
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The Fall Guy
A Novel

Author: James Lasdun

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 6 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2016


Synopsis

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 James Lasdun

James Lasdun is the author of Afternoon of a Faun, The Fall Guy, The Horned Man, and Seven Lies, several poetry and short story collections, and a memoir. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches creative writing at The New School and lives in upstate New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish on August 03, 2017

Ever since I read It’s Beginning to Hurt, a collection of stories by James Lasdun, I have eagerly picked up any writing of his I could find. He comes from a long line of self-aware male novelists who point to themselves, the human condition with its male inadequacies, and laugh with us, e.g., Julian......more

Goodreads review by omgbart on October 02, 2016

Whoever is handling publicity for this new release, is doing an excellent job. Covered in one of the weeklies as a must read thriller for Fall, 'The Fall Guy' really did not deliver in my opinion. The tale of revenge and obsession involved no thrills at all. I appreciate a multi-layer psychological......more