Rediscover the classic novel of love,violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city,they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert,a stranger with a dark history,who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.'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
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099754916Number of pages: 176Weight: 147 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
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Haunting and compellingNo reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at workThis compelling,driven novel explores what it might be like to lose yourself foreverHis writing is exact,tender,funny,voluptuous,disturbingMcEwan,that master of the taciturn macabre,so organises his narrative that,without insisting anything,every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose
Ian McEwan
Described as Britain's greatest living novelist,British author Ian McEwan's books include Enduring Love,Atonement,On Chesil Beach,The Children Act and Nutshell. One of a generation of writers,including Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie,who established their literary credentials in the 1970's Ian McEwan is a world-renowned writer whose novels have the rare gift of being as critically acclaimed as they are widely popular.
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