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  • Published: 4 July 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099754718
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $22.99

In Between the Sheets




Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, this is the second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan.


The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan.

A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress – passive, yet beautiful – but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and despair. And an ape reflects on the relationship with a young female writer, mourning their fading love and musing on the fateful deceptions of art. In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision.

‘Resonant and frightening...totally original’ Observer

‘Exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing’ The Times

  • Published: 4 July 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099754718
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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