Lasdun, James
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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Summary: "When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault in her memoir, expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is brought rapidly and inexorably to the brink of ruin. His reputation and livelihood at stake, Marco confides in a close friend, who finds himself caught between the obligations of friendship and an increasingly urgent desire to uncover the truth. This unnamed friend is drawn, magnetized,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Summary: Chronicles the author's harrowing ordeal at the hands of an obsessed former student whose campaign of hate mail, violently anti-Semitic online postings, and false public accusations were orchestrated to destroy his professional and personal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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Summary: Framed for murder, Lawrence Miller--an expatriate British professor--combs the streets of Manhattan and its neighboring suburbs in a nightmarish pursuit of the perpetrators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASSummary: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories roam the world, from Nigeria to Venice, from an erupting volcano in Iceland to a brothel in the old Wild West. They feature a dazzling array of characters: a young American falling in love in Japan, a girl raised by snake-handling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor 2014