Three Evenings: Stories

by James Lasdun

James Lasdun's Delirium Eclipse, published in 1986, won him outstanding praise as a writer of distinctive gifts and great promise. Three Evenings, a new collection of electrically charged, haunting stories, confirms his unique talent for exploring the undertones of contemporary experience and secures his place as one of the most brilliant British writers of his generation. Critics in England have called it outstanding (Times Literary Supplement), a tour de force (Books), versatile as well as subtle and dazzling (The Observer). In Ate/Menos, or The Miracle, a young man takes unscrupulous advantage of a case of mistaken identity and finds himself enmeshed in a painfully dysfunctional family. Trumpet Voluntary imagines an England of the future which has returned to a repressive form of absolute monarchy. In The Coat, a lonely widow faces up to her son's disastrous choice of a wife. And the book's centerpiece, Three Evenings, portrays a young man's encounter with an old love in an unexpected a unsettling locale. Deception, misunderstanding, the destructive power that one human being can hold over another--these are among James Lasdun's compelling themes, themes rendered with a vividness and oddness of imagery that make the reader see his or her own world through fresh eyes. Lasdun's intensely focused, arresting vision marks out his work as startling and original.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374208875
• ISBN13: 9780374208875
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"