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The Comfort of Strangers
The Comfort of Strangers
paperback
Published:
5 June, 1997
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Description
Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.
Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.
‘Haunting and compelling’ The Times
‘No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work’ New York Times
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099754916 |
| ISBN10 | 0099754916 |
| Number Of Pages | 176 |
| Item Weight | 147 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 197 x 11 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Haunting and compelling * The Times *
No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work * New York Times *
This compelling, driven novel explores what it might be like to lose yourself forever * Guardian *
His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing * The Times *
McEwan, that master of the taciturn macabre, so organises his narrative that, without insisting anything, every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose * Observer *
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Author's Bio
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.