First Love, Last Rites

Stories

Author Ian McEwan
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On sale Jan 13, 1994 | 176 Pages | 978-0-679-75019-2
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award

"McEwan's fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico's citiscapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb."
--New York Times

Stories include:

Homemade

Solid Geometry

Last Day of Summer

Cocker at the Theatre

Butterflies

Conversation with a Cupboard Man

First Love, Last Rites

Disguises
© 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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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award

"McEwan's fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico's citiscapes with the strange eroticism of canvases by Balthus. Menace lies crouched between the lines of his neat, angular prose, and weird, grisly things occur in his books with nearly casual aplomb."
--New York Times

Stories include:

Homemade

Solid Geometry

Last Day of Summer

Cocker at the Theatre

Butterflies

Conversation with a Cupboard Man

First Love, Last Rites

Disguises

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