Notes From Your BooksellerMcEwan’s second published work and his second set of short stories. These seven stories focus on a wide range of human experiences, often focusing on the chilling and unsettling aspects of romantic entanglements. These stories offer readers an insight into the author that would go on to write his share of well-loved books.
Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence.
At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, In Between the Sheets is a tour de force by one of England's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.
