In Between The Sheets

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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 “His stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognizable world of private fantasy and nightmare — a world, despite our protestations to the contrary, we are all involved in.” — Paul Bailey, Observer“McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind.” — New York Times"His stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognizable world of private fantasy and nightmare — a world, despite our protestations to the contrary, we are all involved in." — The Times
"The style recalls some dangerous activity: skillful driving too fast round corners, say — Form and content are so intricately linked you can’t divide them. This is a writer whose plainest combination of words is, like the draughtsman’s proverbial dot, unmistakably telling." — Financial Times
"His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." — The Times
"The Maestro." — New Statesman
"McEwan has — a style and a vision of life of his own…No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him." — John Fowles
"A sparkling and adventurous writer." — Dennis Potter 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. GB