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Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. 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. These tales are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King, but they are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying.
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"McEwan [has] a powerful talent that is both weird and wonderful." --Boston Sunday Globe
"Ian McEwan's fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico's city-scapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb." --The New York Times
"McEwan is a splendid magician of fear." --Village Voice Literary Supplement
"Ian McEwan's fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico's city-scapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb." --The New York Times
"McEwan is a splendid magician of fear." --Village Voice Literary Supplement
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- PublisherCape
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0224010956
- ISBN 13 9780224010955
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages165
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Hardcover with DJ. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (name only.no inscription). 2ND IMPRESSION 1ST ED. 1979 (ISBN 0224010956) JONATHAN CAPE. FROM COLLECTOR'S PERSONAL LIBRARY. PRESENTED WITH CLEAR BOOK JACKET COVER. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers very minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket (price clipped) shows very light edge wear. Previous owner's inscription on end paper. THIS IS THE SECOND JONATHAN CAPE EDITION OF 1979.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 51912030067
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Bill Botten (illustrator). 168pp (last leaf blank); gilt black boards, price-clipped jacket; 204 x 131 x 22 mm. Second printing of the author's award-winning first book, printed by The Anchor Press, Tiptree (as opposed to Richard Clay, Bungay); with jacket printed black only (instead of black & gold). Front panel adds mention of the book's Somerset Maugham Award; flaps altered to blurbs (front) & promo for In Between the Sheets (rear). A tight clean copy in bright jacket which has a 2.5cm portion of the image's black background at lower front tip, worn away. Ink name neat at crown of ffe, dated Aug 1980. While the first printing is relatively common, the second is decidedly not. Seller Inventory # 001595
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