The Comfort of Strangers

Publisher and industry reviews

Jacket review

"As the best young writer on this island, McEwan's evocations of feeling and place and his analysis of mood and relationship remain haunting and compelling."--"The Times"
"As always, McEwan manages his own idiom with remarkable grace and inventiveness; his characters are at home in their dreams, and so is he."--"Guardian"
"His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing."--"The Times"
"The Maestro."--"New Statesman"
"McEwan has--a style and a vision of life of his own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him."--John Fowles
"A sparkling and adventurous writer."--Dennis Potter
"Haunting and compelling." -"The Times"
"McEwan, that master of the taciturn macabre, so organizes his narrative that, without insisting anything, every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose. The evils of power and the power of evil are transmitted with a steely coolness, and in a prose that has a feline grace." -"Observer"

UK Kirkus review

Locked into a soporific and uneasy kind of intimacy Colin and Mary share an unspoken desire to be released. They holiday, desperately, in a slumbering Mediterrenean town and in the stagnant heat remain in their hotel room grooming themselves compulsively. When they do venture out they loose their bearings in the towns labrynthine streets and, wandering lost, encounter an energetic and insistant stranger with a story to tell. The tourniquet tightens... (Kirkus UK)

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