The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan.

A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress - passive, yet beautiful - but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and despair. And an ape reflects on the relationship with a young female writer, mourning their fading love and musing on the fateful deceptions of art. In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision.

'Resonant and frightening...totally original' Observer

'Exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing' The Times

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, this is the second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan.

About the Author
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.

Reviews
Resonant and frightening...totally original * Observer *
His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing * The Times *
McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind * New York Times Book Review *
He is an immediate master of styles and structures... One is struck by McEwan's gift of clarity * New York Review of Books *
This is a writer whose plainest combination of words is, like the draughtsman's proverbial dot, unmistakeably telling * Financial Times *



Book Information
ISBN 9780099754718
Author Ian McEwan
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 147g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 11mm