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Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. These tales are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King, but they are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying.
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"Marks the debut of a talented and genuinely imaginative writer" (Julian Barnes New Statesman)
"As promising a first collection of stories as I have ever come across" (Vogue)
"Ian McEwan writes to shock and succeeds... It is a tour-de-force of concision, and funny, too, in a deadpan manner" (Gabriele Annan Times Literary Supplement)
"A writer of uncanny power" (Time)
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"As promising a first collection of stories as I have ever come across" (Vogue)
"Ian McEwan writes to shock and succeeds... It is a tour-de-force of concision, and funny, too, in a deadpan manner" (Gabriele Annan Times Literary Supplement)
"A writer of uncanny power" (Time)
A brilliant performance. There's an assured and terribly macabre depravity about Ian McEwan's short stories - as if some of the characters from early Angus Wilson had been painted by Francis Bacon - Observer
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0140112804
- ISBN 13 9780140112801
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