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In Between the Sheets

Ian McEwan

At once chilling and beguiling, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement and one of literature's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease, is "an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind" (The New York Times Book Review).

A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence.

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Book Details

  • Publisher: Anchor Books
  • Publish Date: Nov 1st, 1994
  • Pages: 160
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.25in - 0.49in - 0.42lb
  • EAN: 9780679749837
  • Categories: • Anthologies (multiple authors)• Short Stories (single author)• Literary

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.

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Praise for this book

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

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