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The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

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Book name: The Comfort of Strangers (2024)
Category: Fiction
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Pages: 128 pages
ISBN13: 0679749845
ISBN: 0679749845
Language: English
Publication data: Nov. 1, 1994, 8 a.m.
As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

About the author

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan

11 books

Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.

McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He … Read more