Book description
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. Ian McEwan is the author of
two collections of stories and twelve previous novels, including
Enduring Love
, Amsterdam
, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1998, Atonement
and, most recently, Solar.
