Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374219079 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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James Lasdun's account, while terrifying, is told with compassion and humor, and brilliantly succeeds in turning a highly personal story into a profound meditation on subjects as varied as madness, race, Middle East politics, and the meaning of honor and reputation in the Internet age.. 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, online postings, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her weapons of choice and, as with more conventional terrorist weapons, proved remarkably difficult to combat
a gripping, intimate memoir Veronica Sawyer This is an honest and powerful story. In the face of such undeserved torment and hateful aggression, Mr. Lasdun turns introspective and generously shares with the reader the details of his mental undoing and also, in writing this book, the galvanizing steps he takes to right the wrong. I work in law enforcement and have encountered this type of stalker: the wayward, lonely, largely disregarded social misfit who has nothing to lose by attacking the successful and who believes, perversely, tha. Well-written, fascinating and yet troubling. This is an excellent book for anyone in academe interested in the subject of stalking. It is not, however a straightforward book about stalking. This is a complex literary meditation on the author's own experience through the lenses of various texts and various stages of the author's own awareness. It is all interwoven quite artfully, and yet there is a lingering sense of profound disorder.At the outset, one expects the stalker to be profoundly disturbed. She is. By mid-book, however, one re. EJ said Controversial, fascinating, terrifyingand possibly ill-advised?. If you are thinking about buying this book, then you are surely aware of its foundation. The author, James Lasdun--a writer, a teacher--is being stalked by a former student whom he calls Nasreen. This is not a novel, it is a literary memoir. Thus, I feel compelled to state that this book is most definitely not a pulp thriller or a true-crime story of suspense, as some of the marketing material may imply. This is a deep introspective investigation of how one feels when a nefarious character b
--Alan Moores . Lasdun delivers a thoughtful account of what went horribly wrong. From Booklist This memoir-as-cautionary-tale starts innocently enough in 2003 with established novelist and poet Lasdun (Seven Lies, 2005) teaching a fiction workshop at a New York City college. If her e-mails tell the age-old story of unrequited love, devolving from early girlish innocence (“I’m sorry if I got screwy on you. Slowly, even as teacher and student warm to one another over a novel she has begun to write, their relationship begins to unspool, the student pressing ever harder for a romantic relationship, while the happily married professor, though flattered by the advances, demurs with equal force. Please laugh.”) to embitterment (“I also believe you are on medication instead of dealing with why you and most Jewish people are sadistic”), they’re married to a technology that can spread a lie worldwide in a nanosecond, wh