In Between the Sheets
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    Sep-1980
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Darkly brilliant short fiction by the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Machines Like Me and Atonement.
 
A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. Over the course of a weekend, a guilt-ridden father with his teenage daughter discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence. Whether these are the written transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of our psyche, all seven stories in this collection implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable.
 
“His stories are complex and his prose, like Orwell's, is as clear as windowpane… McEwan's comic edge gives these stories a moral force. They are not meant simply to shock and horrify middle-class readers. Rather, like all good satire, they seek to unmask hypocrisy and cruelty.” -- The Washington Post Book World
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    • First Edition
    • Sep-1980
    • Berkley
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0425047199
    • ISBN13: 9780425047194
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    • Feb-1990
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140112812
    • ISBN13: 9780140112818
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    • Nov-1994
    • Anchor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679749837
    • ISBN13: 9780679749837
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    • Jun-1997
    • Vintage (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099754711
    • ISBN13: 9780099754718
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    • Jan-1978
    • Simon & Schuster
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0671242903
    • ISBN13: 9780671242909
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    • Nov-2009
    • Rosettabooks LLC
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0795301693
    • ISBN13: 9780795301698
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    • Feb-2011
    • RosettaBooks
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Feb-2011
    • RosettaBooks
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Feb-2011
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1409090175
    • ISBN13: 9781409090175
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    • Feb-2004
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0786259345
    • ISBN13: 9780786259342
    • Large Print
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    • Jun-2004
    • Chivers
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0754056910
    • ISBN13: 9780754056911
    • Large Print
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    • Jun-2004
    • Chivers
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0754056902
    • ISBN13: 9780754056904
    • Large Print



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