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The Comfort of Strangers

English · Paperback / Softback

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Zusatztext "As the best young writer on this island! McEwan's evocations of feeling and place and his analysis of mood and relationship remain haunting and compelling." — The Times (London) "As always! McEwan manages his own idiom with remarkable grace and inventiveness; his characters are at home in their dreams! and so is he." — The Guardian "The Maestro." — New Statesman "McEwan has—a style and a vision of life of his own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him." —John Fowles "A sparkling and adventurous writer." —Dennis Potter “McEwan! that master of the taciturn macabre! so organizes his narrative that! without insisting anything! every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose. The evils of power and the power of evil are transmitted with a steely coolness! and in a prose that has a feline grace.” — Observer Informationen zum Autor IAN MCEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen 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; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen. Klappentext A vacationing English couple find more than they bargained for, in this unsettling novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement. Visiting an unnamed city, Mary and Colin attract the interest of Robert, a charismatic older man with a story to tell. But the more they get to know Robert-and his disabled wife, Caroline-the more apparent it becomes that there's something not quite right about their new friends. A shocking work of violence and obsession, The Comfort of Strangers is Ian McEwan at his very best. Zusammenfassung A vacationing English couple find more than they bargained for, in this inventive and unsettling novel from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement . Visiting an unnamed city, Mary and Colin attract the interest of Robert, a charismatic older man with a story to tell. But the more they get to know Robert—and his disabled wife, Caroline—the more apparent it becomes that there’s something not quite right about their new friends. A shocking work of violence and obsession, The Comfort of Strangers is Ian McEwan at his very best. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons . ...

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Authors Ian McEwan
Publisher Anchor Books USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.11.1994
 
EAN 9780679749844
ISBN 978-0-679-74984-4
No. of pages 128
Dimensions 130 mm x 203 mm x 8 mm
Series Vintage International
Vintage International
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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