Three Evenings (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Lasdun
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Obsession, Human behavior, Morality or morals, Senses or sensation
When James Lasdun’s first collection of stories, Delerium Eclipse and Other Stories (1985) appeared, it was clear that his gifts for sensuous prose and psychological surprise would enable him to go far. In this collection, he continues to develop his talent for arresting images, vividly captured human emotions, and morally exciting situations. What he does not do is delve any deeper into the human condition than he did in his first volume. Readers were told that he was completing a novel at the time his first collection of stories was published. Perhaps the stories in this new...
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