Book description
A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me
Everything You Have chronicles the author's strange and
harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled
'verbal terrorist', who began trying, in her words, to 'ruin him'.
Hate-mail - much of it violently anti-Semitic - online postings and
public accusations of theft and sexual misconduct, have been her
weapons of choice, and, as with more conventional terrorist weapons,
have proved remarkably difficult to combat.
James Lasdun's account, while terrifying, is told with compassion
and humour, and brilliantly succeeds in turning a highly personal
story into a profound meditation on subjects as varied as madness,
race, Middle-Eastern politics, and the meaning of honour and
reputation in the internet age.
James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He
has published two novels as well as several collections of short stories
and poetry. His work has been adapted for film by Bernardo Bertolucci in
Besieged
and for the Sundance award-winning
Sunday
. He has been long-listed for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the LA
Times, T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes in poetry, and was the winner of
the inaugural UK/BBC Short Story Prize. His non-fiction has been
published in
Harpers
,
Granta
and the
London Review of Books
.
