In Between the Sheets - Hardcover

Ian Mc Ewan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671242903 ISBN 13: 9780671242909

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Synopsis

A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress – passive, yet beautiful – but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and despair. And an ape reflects on the relationship with a young female writer, mourning their fading love and musing on the fateful deceptions of art. In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision.

About this title

Review:

"Resonant and frightening...totally original" (Observer)

"His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing" (The Times)

"McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind" (New York Times Book Review)

"He is an immediate master of styles and structures... One is struck by McEwan's gift of clarity" (New York Review of Books)

"This is a writer whose plainest combination of words is, like the draughtsman's proverbial dot, unmistakeably telling" (Financial Times)

Book Description:

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, this is the second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• ISBN 10: 0671242903
• ISBN 13: 9780671242909
• Binding: Hardcover