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The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

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Author Biography

Name: Ian (Russell) McEwan
Variant Name: Ian McEwan, Ian Russell McEwan
Birth Date: June 21, 1948
Nationality: British, English
Gender: Male

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Biography of Ian (Russell) McEwan
5102 words, approx. 17 pages
Ian McEwan first came to public notice in 1975; he was immediately recognized as an important and new voice on the fictional scene. Along with Martin Amis and Julian Barnes, his contemporaries, he is one of the most esteemed novelists of his generation....
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Biography of Ian (Russell) McEwan
3907 words, approx. 13 pages
Ian McEwan is very much a product of the new British universities, those popularly known as "plate-glass universities" to distinguish them from the older "red-brick universities" at which writers such as Kinglsey Amis or Philip Larkin have taught or stil...


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The Comfort of Strangers Information
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The Comfort of Strangers is a 1981 novel by British writer Ian McEwan. It is one of his earlier and lesser known works, and is set in Venice. It was adapted into a film in 1990 (The Comfort of Strangers), which starred Rupert Everett, Christopher...


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The Independent - London
Comfort of strangers
09/06/1997: 695 words, approx. 2 pages
Again and again this week people - almost always women - have told me the same story. It is about how they felt themselves compelled to go down to Kensington Palace. Some laid flowers, one or two signed the book of condolence. They knelt...
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National Review
The Comfort of Strangers.
05/27/1991: 1,436 words, approx. 5 pages
When Colin and Mary are on their second holiday in Venice in two or three years, Colin proposes to Mary. Will she marry him? "Yes, but we don't have to commit ourselves to all that," she replies. "I mean, it's been such a...
 


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Critical Essay by Judith Seaboyer
12,334 words, approx. 41 pages
In the following essay, Seaboyer examines the significance of psychic trauma, violence, and the cultural landscape of Venice in The Comfort of Strangers.


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