First Love, Last Rites
Author: Ian McEwan
The fortieth anniversary edition of McEwan’s first published work, now with an introduction from the authorForty years on from first publication, these stories display McEwan’s dazzling early talent. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, they are stories of sex and loneliness, adolescence and incest, love and murder, and they linger in the mind long after they are finish….Read More
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