In Between the Sheets

Author Ian McEwan
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On sale Nov 01, 1994 | 160 Pages | 9780679749837

Here are seven stories from one of England's most acclaimed literary writers.

"A writer in full control of his materials.... In [his] short stories, the effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensual touch is that of magic realism--a transfiguration of the ordinary that has a...strong visceral impact."
--New York Review of Books

"McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind."
--New York Times Book Review

Stories include:

Pornography

Reflections of a Kept Ape

Two Fragments: March 199-

Dead as They Come

In Between the Sheets

To and Fro

Psychopolis
© Bastian Schweitzer / © Diogenes Verlag
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.

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Here are seven stories from one of England's most acclaimed literary writers.

"A writer in full control of his materials.... In [his] short stories, the effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensual touch is that of magic realism--a transfiguration of the ordinary that has a...strong visceral impact."
--New York Review of Books

"McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind."
--New York Times Book Review

Stories include:

Pornography

Reflections of a Kept Ape

Two Fragments: March 199-

Dead as They Come

In Between the Sheets

To and Fro

Psychopolis

Author

© Bastian Schweitzer / © Diogenes Verlag
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.

ianmcewan.com View titles by Ian McEwan

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