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The Comfort of Strangers.
Ian McEwan
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Description for The Comfort of Strangers.
Paperback. As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
174g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099754916
SKU
V9780099754916
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Ref
99-98
About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Comfort of Strangers.
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
... Read more
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
... Read more