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First love, last rites

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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.

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Vintage
0099754819 / 9780099754817
Paperback / softback
823.914
05/06/1997
United Kingdom
English
Contemporary classics
161 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.
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
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 FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FYB Short stories