Details
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Title
The Comfort of Strangers
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Author
McEwan, Ian
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Binding
Paperback
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Edition
Reprint
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Condition
Used - Good
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Pages
176
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Penguin Random House, London
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Date
June 5, 1997
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Bookseller's Inventory #
GRP59349475
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ISBN
9780099754916 / 0099754916
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Weight
0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
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Dewey Decimal Code
FIC
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Summary
Haunting and compelling, -The TimesAs 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.
From the publisher
Ian McEwan has written two short story collections and eight novels. He won the 1998 Booker Prize for his first novel Amsterdam. He lives in England.
First line
EACH AFTERNOON, when the whole city beyond the dark green shutters of their hotel windows began to stir, Colin and Mary were woken by the methodical chipping of steel tools against the iron barges which moored by the hotel cafe potoon.
Media reviews
"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
"As always, McEwan manages his own idiom with remarkable grace and inventiveness; his characters are at home in their dreams, and so is he."—Guardian
"His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing."—The Times
"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
“Haunting and compelling.” –The Times
“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
About the author
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.
