From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—a taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric collection of stories that are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King.
Here is the collection that first brought Ian McEwan instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. These riveting 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 disturb but are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying.
Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.
SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD WINNER
"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
From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—a taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric collection of stories that are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King.
Here is the collection that first brought Ian McEwan instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. These riveting 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 disturb but are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying.
Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.
Praise
SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD WINNER
"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
