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First Love, Last Rites

✍ Scribed by Mcewan, Ian

Publisher: RosettaBooks
Year: 1975
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 90 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780795301896

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✦ Synopsis

Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices in literature today.

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

While McEwan does not fit the "horror" genre, make no mistake the work here is as horrifying—and frankly terrifying—as anything you'll find written by Clive Barker or Stephen King. McEwan's work is finely crafted with a lyricism and an intensity that compels us to confront our secret kinship with what repels us.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

First Love, Last Rites was McEwan's first published book and is a collection of short stories that in 1976 won the Somerset Maugham Award. A second volume of his work appeared in 1978. These stories—claustrophobic tales of childhood, deviant sexuality and... ϡ쯦랠

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