Give Me Everything You Have

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<p>A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate,<i>Give Me Everything You Have</i>chronicles the authors 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 much of it violently anti-Semitic online postings and public accusations of theft and sexual misconduct, have been her weapons of choice, and, as with more conventional terrorist weapons, have proved remarkably difficult to combat.</p><p>James Lasduns account, while terrifying, is told with compassion and humour, and brilliantly succeeds in turning a highly personal story into a profound meditation on subjects as varied as madness, race, Middle-Eastern politics, and the meaning of honour and reputation in the internet age.</p>

Autorenportrait

James Lasduns books include<i>The Fall Guy</i>and<i>Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked</i>. He teaches creative writing at Columbia University and reviews regularly for the<i>Guardian</i>. His work has been filmed by Bernardo Bertolucci (<i>Besieged</i>) and he co-wrote the films<i>Sunday</i>, which won Best Feature and Best Screenplay awards at Sundance, and<i>Signs and Wonders</i>, starring Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgård.

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