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This collection of short stories is McEwan’s first published work from 1975. In this collection, he delves into many of the subjects that would interest him later as well as worked to create his distinctive voice and style. These stories have the intensity and lyricism that many of his later works would embody more fully.

Somerset Maugham Award winner: Dark early fiction by the author of Nutshell—"A splendid magician of fear" (The Village Voice Literary Supplement).

Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, the stories here show us how murder can arise out of boredom, perversity from adolescent curiosity—and how sheer evil can become the solution to unbearable loneliness.

These short fiction pieces from the early career of the New York Times–bestselling and Man Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement an...