Comfort Of Strangers

McEwan, Ian

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As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked tightly in their own intimacy. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, and, almost against their will, Colin and Maria are drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

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Publish Date: 05/06/1997

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Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.

Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.

‘Haunting and compelling’ The Times

‘No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work’ New York Times

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Weight 157 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 13 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

134

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.914 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K