About the Book: First Love Last Rites
'Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which
murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent
curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness....
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