James Lasdun’s life became hell when a former creative writing student launched a vicious, years-long attack on him via the Internet. His new memoir, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked, is a gripping account of how a friendly correspondence turned corrosive, and how a woman he had intended to help tried to dismantle his very life. A gifted novelist and poet (his previous books include The Horned Man, Seven Lies and It’s Beginning to Hurt: Stories), Lasdun offers a reminder of how vulnerable we are in an information age, and the power of language to both ...
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