The Comfort of Strangers
by McEwan, Ian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j in protective sleeve. Brown boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; pages tight and unmar
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j in protective sleeve. Brown boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; pages tight and unmarked.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.
Synopsis
Haunting and compelling, -The TimesAs 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC43967
- Title
- The Comfort of Strangers
- Author
- McEwan, Ian
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j in protective sleeve. Brown boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; pages tight and unmar
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 134
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, McEwan
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8\"\" x 5_\"\")
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