In Between the Sheets (1978)

by Ian McEwan

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This is an early (1978) collection of seven short stories, most of them with a psychosexual twist. While I can't say that I really liked the collection, it was interesting to see McEwan's style emerging. His mastery of characters' inner dialogue is beginning to show here. (

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O'Byrne atravesó a pie el mercado del Soho hasta la tienda de su hermano, en Brewer Street. Un puñado de clientes hojeaba las revistas, y Harold los observaba a través de unas gafas de culo de vaso desde su tarima, en un rincón.

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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.

At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, In Between the Sheets is a tour de force by one of England's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.

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This anthology of short stories portrays a world that everyone can recognise, a private world of fantasy and nightmare and yet a world we are all involved in.

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