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
| ISBN: | 9780099754718 |
| Publication date: | 5th June 1997 |
| Author: | Ian McEwan |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 134 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Love and relationships Shorter Reads |