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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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" 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
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" 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
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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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0330248308
- ISBN 13 9780330248303
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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