Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"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 (London)
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"The Maestro." New Statesman
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"McEwan, that master of the taciturn macabre, so organizes his narrative that, without insisting anything, every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose. The evils of power and the power of evil are transmitted with a steely coolness, and in a prose that has a feline grace." Observer (London)
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"Convincing and clinging as a nightmare....[McEwan is] an alluringly gifted writer." The New York Times Book Review
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"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
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"A sparkling and adventurous writer." Dennis Potter
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"An exquisite miniature gothic." Chicago Tribune
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"Smooth, classy...elegant and restrained." The Village Voice
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As their vacation unfolds, a couple find themselves trapped in their own intimacy in this unsettling novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear, but then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession, with terrible consequences."
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A vacationing English couple find more than they bargained for, in this unsettling novel from the Booker Prize-winning author ofAtonement.
Visiting an unnamed city, Mary and Colin attract the interest of Robert, a charismatic older man with a story to tell. But the more they get to know Robert and his disabled wife, Caroline the more apparent it becomes that there s something not quite right about their new friends. A shocking work of violence and obsession, The Comfort of Strangers is Ian McEwan at his very best."
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A vacationing English couple find more than they bargained for, in this unsettling novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement. "No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan's accomplishment.--The Washington Post Book World
Visiting an unnamed city, Mary and Colin attract the interest of Robert, a charismatic older man with a story to tell. But the more they get to know Robert--and his disabled wife, Caroline--the more apparent it becomes that there's something not quite right about their new friends. A shocking work of violence and obsession, The Comfort of Strangers is Ian McEwan at his very best.
Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons, coming in September
About the Author
Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted 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. He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children's book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.