- Title:
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First Love Last Rites
- Written by:
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Ian McEwan
- Read by:
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Mark Meadows
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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5 hours 41 minutes
- Published:
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June 01 2020
- Available Date:
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June 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655669401
- Genres:
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Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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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