Una quotidianità che sconfina nell’onirico, ma rimane coi piedi per terra. Ma credo questi sette racconti.Ĭhe proseguono quella vena del primo McEwan, il suo periodo che preferisco, di storie piuttosto domestiche, intrise di sesso, venate di gotico, con una buona propensione alla ferocia, alla perversione e all’ironia crudele, tanto da meritargli a quell’epoca il soprannome di Ian Macabre. Seconda raccolta di racconti per McEwan, e forse seconda pubblicazione in assoluto: anche se nello stesso anno uscì il suo primo romanzo, Il giardino di cemento, e sinceramente non so quale dei due apparve prima. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards where McEwan was also named Reader's Digest Author of the Year. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.

In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan