In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan - ISBN: 9780099754718
Paperback
Dark desires and twisted relationships unfold in McEwan’s sharp stories.

In Between the Sheets

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  • Paperback

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    4 July 1997

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Summary

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

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, mourn…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099754718
ISBN-10:0099754711
Author:Ian McEwan
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:4 July 1997
Weight:147g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Series:Vintage Books
What They're Saying

Critics 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 *

About The Author

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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