First Love, Last Rites - Short Stories

Author(s): Ian McEwan

Fiction

Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.

General Information

  • : 9780099754817
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage
  • : 0.146
  • : 01 November 1997
  • : 197mm X 130mm X 11mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Ian McEwan
  • : New edition
  • : English
  • : 176
  • : 1

More About The Product

A brilliant performance. There's an assured and terribly macabre depravity about Ian McEwan's short stories - as if some of the characters from early Angus Wilson had been painted by Francis Bacon - Observer 20020218