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Ian McEwan

From his first published work, 1975’s Somerset Maugham Award-winning short story collection First Love, Last Rites, to his acclaimed novels, including Atonement, On Chesil Beach and 1998’s Man Booker Prize-winning Amsterdam, Ian McEwan’s stories have captured and provoked the imaginations of readers worldwide. His numerous accolades – Whitbread Novel of the Year (The Child in Time), National Book Critics’ Circle Fiction Award and Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (Atonement), multiple Man Booker Prize short-listings and a CBE – are testament to a lifetime dedicated to his craft. Beyond his much-celebrated novels and short stories, he has written successful plays, children’s books and screenplays, and several of his books have been translated to screen, including Christopher Hampton’s 2007 adaptation of Atonement and his own 2017 adaptations of On Chesil Beach and The Children Act. His immeasurable contributions to the arts have been acknowledged via multiple honorary titles, awards and fellowships, including recognition by the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Title:

First Love Last Rites

Written by:

Ian McEwan 

Read by:

Mark Meadows 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

6 

Duration:

5 hours 41 minutes 

Published:

June 01 2020 

Available Date:

June 01 2020 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9780655669401 

Genres:

Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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Price

Bolinda price

AUD$ 29.95

AUD$ 29.95

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Award winning author

The first book from Booker prize-winning Ian McEwan, featuring stories of sex and loneliness, adolescence and incest, love and murder, and they linger in the mind long after they are finished.

Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. These tales are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King, but they are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying.

'Ian McEwan's fictional world combin[es] the bleak, dreamlike quality of de Chirico's city-scapes 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