First Love, Last Rites

First Love, Last Rites

by Ian McEwan
First Love, Last Rites

First Love, Last Rites

by Ian McEwan

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Overview

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This collection of short stories is McEwan’s first published work from 1975. In this collection, he delves into many of the subjects that would interest him later as well as worked to create his distinctive voice and style. These stories have the intensity and lyricism that many of his later works would embody more fully.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780679750192
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/13/1994
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 703,740
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

IAN MCEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

Hometown:

Oxford, England

Date of Birth:

June 21, 1948

Place of Birth:

Aldershot, England

Education:

B.A., University of Sussex, 1970; M.A., University of East Anglia, 1971

Table of Contents

Homemade
Solid Geometry
Last Day of Summer
Cocker at the Theatre
Butterflies
Conversation with a Cupboard Man
First Love, Last Rites
Disguises

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