Swung - Softcover

Morrison, Ewan

3.16

132 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224078763 ISBN 13: 9780224078764

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2007

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It started as a joke.

From the moment she first meets him Alice is aware that David is impotent. 'I'm impotent,' he says, 'in so many ways.' He's separated from his wife and daughter, an HR executive worried for his job at a Glaswegian TV company. She's American, wants to be an artist. They move in together.

To start with she tells him stories, bedtime stories about couples having sex, them watching. Then Alice finds that David has gone further, and is logging on to swinging sites - horny housewives, couples willing to try anything... Just as a joke, he says.

Alice is intrigued. These people seem so honest, so open about needing to reach out and touch. And maybe this is the answer to David's problem. Maybe they need people like this to give them a love life.

And so David and Alice plunge head first into the hidden world of Glasgow swinging, where no one is ugly and nothing is forbidden. Their journey ends at an orgy with nine other couples in the Black Room, where you can see nothing but feel everything. And there, finally, each of them finds what they have been searching for.

Like Ewan Morrison's first book, the highly-praised The Last Book You Read and Other Stories, Swung is frank, funny, disturbing and compassionate. It confirms Morrison as a writer of great daring and huge gifts.

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Review:

'...so good that a string of gushing superlatives still seem to be damning
it with faint praise...' -- Irvine Welsh

"A racy romp... not for the faint of heart, this psychologically
involving story certainly makes for an eye-opening read" -- Easy Living Magazine

"Glasgow writer Ewan Morrison takes on the mantle of
responsibility of writing a serious book about sex and carries it off with
great success. It's difficult to believe that Swung is his first novel.
It boasts a narrative control and sureness of touch... that would induce
envy in many more experienced novelists... Swung is a beautifully crafted,
completely realised and often inspirational book. It announces Morrison as
one of the most interesting and exciting voices to emerge in Scottish
fiction in recent years."
-- Guardian

"Though sex is its language, this is a novel about ageing and
settling and messing things up again, with heart enough to make it hurt a
little"
-- Observer

"as dirty a debut as Adam Thirlwell's brilliant Politics.... And
just as funny and thought-provoking" -- Daily Sport

"very impressive first novel from a writer who will eventually go
on to bigger and better things" -- Scotland on Sunday

'Undeniably erotic...the best book on sex since John Updike's
Couples' -- Arena

Worryingly captivating -- Esquire Esquire

very impressive first novel from a writer who will eventually go
on to bigger and better things -- Scotland on Sunday

From the Publisher:

The first novel by a brilliant new Scottish writer who takes the reader places they’ve never been before.

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