James Lasdun knows how to get into the psyche of his characters, mostly middle aged men living middle class lives. He rivaled Henry James with his psychological study of madness in “The Horned Man.” Now comes his third book and his first collection of stories, It’s Beginning to Hurt. The stories feature people going through hard times and learning to cope with the unbearable pain that comes from these obstacles: infidelity, cancer and loss.
A man goes to the funeral of a lover and out of habit lies to his wife about where he has been; An elementary school principal, who is fighting with his sister, goes through a series of tests to see if he has lymphoma. These are some of the things Lasdun writes so beautifully and simply about in this fine collection.
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