The Comfort of Strangers - Softcover

McEwan, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099754916 ISBN 13: 9780099754916

Publisher: Vintage, 1997

Synopsis

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 black magician is at work’ New York Times

About this title

Product Description:

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.

Review:

"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)

"McEwan, that master of the taciturn macabre, so organises his narrative that, without insisting anything, every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose" (Observer)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0099754916
• ISBN 13: 9780099754916
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176