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The Horned Man
  • Published: 15 February 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099428350
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Horned Man

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15 Feb 2003
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'This enormously inventive, superbly written novel puts more seasoned authors in the shade' - Sunday Times

Lawrence Miller, an English expatriate in New York, tells the story of what appears to be an elaborate conspiracy to frame him for a series of brutal killings. The intricate plot entangles Miller, a teacher of Gender Studies, in the lives of a womanising colleague under investigation for sexual harassment, a lonely attorney who has developed an inexplicable passion for Miller, and a shadowy Bulgarian who adapts Kafka for the stage, is prone to acts of explosive violence, and may or may not be sleeping under Miller's office desk.

As the novel spirals to its shocking conclusion, Lawrence Miller traverses, in terror, the streets of Manhattan, tracking the lines of human connection across the city and out to the decaying suburbs beyond, in wild pursuit of his persecutors.
  • Published: 15 February 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099428350
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

James Lasdun

James Lasdun was born in London and lives in Brooklyn. His novels, memoir, poetry and short-story collections have won many awards, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, London Review of Books and New Yorker, among others.
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Praise for The Horned Man

Bristling with precise, poetic descriptions of scene and gesture

Guardian

Lasdun's prose is crisp, clear, meticulously calibrated. His attention to detail is immaculate... A novel which locks its readers inside it, keeping them trapped even after they have reached the end

The Times

The Horned Man is a marvellous novel, both compellingly readable - I literally couldn't put it down - and deeply philosophical

John Burnside, Scotsman

A chilling tale of urban paranoia, poetically executed

Time Out