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A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for a previous collection of short stories entitled "First Love, Last Rites".
| ISBN | 0099754711 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780099754718
(What's this?) | | Pages | 144 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Weight (grammes) | 126 | | Imprint | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 200 | | Publication date | 03 Jan 1998 | | Width (mm) | 132 | | Reissue date | 02 May 2002 | | Spine width (mm) | 10 | | Non-book description | B | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 823.914 | |
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"His stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognizable world of private fantasy and nightmare -- a world, despite our protestations to the contrary, we are all involved in." -- Paul Bailey, "Observer" "McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind." -- "New York Times" "His stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognizable world of private fantasy and nightmare -- a world, despite our protestations to the contrary, we are all involved in." -- "The Times""The style recalls some dangerous activity: skillful driving too fast round corners, say -- Form and content are so intricately linked you can't divide them. This is a writer whose plainest combination of words is, like the draughtsman's proverbial dot, unmistakably telling." -- "Financial Times""His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." -- "The Times  Be the first to write a customer review
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