Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374219079 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-15 |
| 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
Veronica Sawyer said a gripping, intimate memoir. 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 thi. 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, . Controversial, fascinating, terrifyingand possibly ill-advised? EJ 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
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. His students include an unassuming though strikingly talented Iranian woman in her thirties. 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. 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, while offering little cover for anyone so defamed. Lasdun delivers a thoughtful account of what went horribly wrong. --Alan Moores . Slowly, even as teacher and student warm to one another over a novel she has begun to write, their relationship begin