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By the author of "The Cement Garden", this story revolves around a couple on holiday in Venice. On one of their expeditions they meet a friendly local, and on going back to his house they meet his wife who has been crippled through his violent sexual demands - and one of the couple dies.
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"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)
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"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)
Haunting and compelling - The Times
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0330268295
- ISBN 13 9780330268295
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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