In Between the Sheets
“His stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognizable world of private fantasy and nightmare -- a world, despite our protestations to the contrary, we are all involved in.” -- Paul Bailey,Observer“McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind.” --New York Times"His stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognizable world of private fantasy and nightmare -- a world, despite our protestations to the contrary, we are all involved in." --The Times"The style recalls some dangerous activity: skillful driving too fast round corners, say -- Form and content are so intricately linked you can't divide them. This is a writer whose plainest combination of words is, like the draughtsman's proverbial dot, unmistakably telling." --Financial Times"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--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.