One of the most beguiling storytellers on either side of the Atlantic
delivers a luminous new collection whose 14 stories are a series of
variations on the theme of love–and its shady cousin lust. A film
director’s journal becomes an unintended chronicle of his deepening
and ruinous obsession with a leading lady (“Notebook No. 9”). While
flying business class, a well-behaved English architect feels the
chill onset of an otherworldly visitation that will shatter his
family and career (“A Haunting”). An unhappy young boy, neglected by
both his father and adulterous mother, finds an unexpected friend in
an elderly painter (“Varengeville”). Wise, unsettling, humane, and
endlessly surprising, Fascination lives up to its title on every
page, while confirming William Boyd’s stature as a writer of
incandescent talent.
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