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The Comfort of Strangers
- Author
- Ian McEwan
- Narrator
- Alex Jennings
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 13 November 2014
- Run Time
- 3 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Critics Review
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Haunting and compelling
The Times
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McEwan, that master of the taciturn macabre, so organises his narrative that, without insisting anything, every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose
Observer
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As always, McEwan manages his own idiom with remarkable grace and inventiveness; his characters are at home in their dreams and so is he
Guardian
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Has you in its stranglehold from the first page to the last. McEwan has honed his prose style (always admirably spare) to tell his tale, and with all the skill of an accomplished torturer, he throws the occasional crumbs of comfort, as the tension becomes unbearable, only to snatch them away within moments
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Details
- Author
- Ian McEwan
- Narrator
- Alex Jennings
- Duration
- 3 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 November 2014
- ISBN
- 9781473513945
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Psychological thriller, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Synopsis
As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.
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