At once chilling and beguiling, the seven stories in this collection
engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. McEwan, the
bestselling author of Atonement and one of literature's most acclaimed
practitioners of literary unease, is "an acute psychologist of the
ordinary mind" (The New York Times Book Review).
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.
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