The Comfort of Strangers (1981)

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Ian McEwan

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English

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.

Date of Composition: 1981   Confidence Level  

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Jonathan Cape on (1981)

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https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/103/1032810/the-comfort-of-strangers/9780099754916.html

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