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Victory

James Lasdun

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#5200 of 8,085 books · #2388 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Writers' Prize (2020).

Victory was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020. Love and hate, desire and guilt, friendship and betrayal – these are the coordinates that drive James Lasdun's two intensely gripping, darkly comic novellas of men and women caught between their irrational passions and the urge for control. In Feathered Glory the seemingly happy marriage of a school principal and his artist wife reveals dangerous fault-lines as an old lover reappears in the husband's life. The past also haunts the present in Afternoon of a Faun, where an accusation of historic sexual assault plunges Marco Rosedale, an English journalist in New York, into a series of deepening crises. Together these stories offer a sharply observed vision that will resonate with anyone interested in the clash of power and desire in our embattled contemporary lives.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781473561373
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Sexual violence and powerMarriage and betrayalGuilt and accusation

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