First Love, Last Rites (Picador Books) - Softcover

McEwan, Ian

 
9780330248303: First Love, Last Rites (Picador Books)

Synopsis

This is a collection of short stories which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. The awakening sensations of first love and its ritual initiations are the main topics of the short stories contained in this book.

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Review

" McEwan [has] a powerful talent that is both weird and wonderful." --"Boston Sunday Globe"
" Ian McEwan's fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico's city-scapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb." --"The New York Times"
" McEwan is a splendid magician of fear." --"Village Voice Literary Supplement"

"McEwan [has] a powerful talent that is both weird and wonderful." --Boston Sunday Globe

"Ian McEwan's fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico's city-scapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb." --The New York Times

"McEwan is a splendid magician of fear." --Village Voice Literary Supplement

From the Publisher

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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