Synopsis
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.
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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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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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