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The Comfort of Strangers

Ian McEwan

#3273 of 8,085 books · #965 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1981).

Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession.

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
ISBN-13
9781409089865
Topics
Obsession and manipulationViolenceRomantic relationships

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