Reviews
This book is packed with clinical wisdom, scholarship, case studies, and detailed neurodevelopment correlates of relational trauma that illustrate the effective use of Chapman's Art Therapy Treatment Intervention. The author makes an irrefutable case for art therapy's place in the treatment of PTSD, acute and chronic trauma, and abuse in infants, children, and adolescents. A must-read and an inspiring contribution., James Lasdun has written an elegantly suspenseful novel set in a brilliantly realized affluent upstate New York community not unlike Woodstock--his characters are achingly real, and the self-deceptions that drive them so insightfully depicted, we might almost mistake them for our own. Truly a 'page-turner'--propelled toward just the right ending., A twisty, chilly, exquisitely written, and tautly suspenseful exploration of big ideas in the guise of a psychological thriller. . .Lasdun's prose is both lapidary and hypnotic., [A] terrific novel of suspense. . . Lasdun presents the inexorable turnings of fate in a subtle and disconcerting way., Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations., Exceptionally entertaining...The Fall Guy reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith...Lasdun is masterly in his story's construction...This is exactly what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift, unsettling., Elegant and disturbing... This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations., Lasdun's poetic talent has veered toward the genre of criminal suspense. . . The Fall Guy has the quality of a dream that follows its own terrible logic, impossible to break free from, never to be forgotten after you wake up, Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal., Expertly playing the noir card, Lasdun dissects the mercurial relationships among a wealthy financier, his photographer wife and an aimless cousin during a long hot summer in upstate New York. There are plenty of lies and betrayals in this stylish thriller, but it's the slow burn of obsession that makes it sing., Exceptionally entertaining. . . . The Fall Guy reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith. . . . This is exactly what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift, unsettling. [Lasdun] deserves to find more readers on these shores., In The Fall Guy, James Lasdun brings the signature gifts to contemporary noir that he's displayed in other literary venues--wit, style, an attractive gravitas. And the tale itself is sharp, acute in its observations, and absorbing. It's a rich read., What a sinister and searching novel this is--and what a delight. James Lasdun is one of our great writers., Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same time. . . a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has been stalked., Aptly described as the literary descendant of Dostoevsky and Patricia Highsmith. . . . The Fall Guy is a twisty, chilly, exquisitely written, and tautly suspenseful exploration of big ideas in the guise of a psychological thriller., As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in Lasdun's combustible psychological thriller.
