The Comfort of Strangers - Hardcover

Ian McEwan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671428500 ISBN 13: 9780671428501

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1981

Synopsis

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, they become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"As the best young writer on this island, McEwan's evocations of feeling and place and his analysis of mood and relationship remain haunting and compelling." - The Times

"As always, McEwan manages his own idiom with remarkable grace and inventiveness; his characters are at home in their dreams, and so is he." - Guardian

"His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." - The Times

"The Maestro." - New Statesman

"McEwan has--a style and a vision of life of his own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him." - John Fowles

"A sparkling and adventurous writer." - Dennis Potter

About the Author:

Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of seventeen books, including the novels Nutshell; The Children Act; Sweet Tooth; Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; On Chesil Beach; Saturday; Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both short-listed for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0671428500
• ISBN 13: 9780671428501
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 127