# The Comfort of Strangers

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- Authors: [Ian McEwan](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-03-11
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Thriller / suspense fiction

## Description

Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. 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. ‘Haunting and compelling’ The Times ‘No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work’ New York Times

## Editions

### The Comfort of Strangers

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9975-491-6
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2023-08-03
- Language: en_GB

### The Comfort of Strangers

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 3 h 49 min
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- ISBN: 978-14-7351-394-5
- Published: 2014-11-13
- Language: en_GB

### The Comfort of Strangers

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0908-986-5
- Published: 2010-03-11
- Language: en_GB

### The Comfort of Strangers

- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-06-7974-984-4
- Pages: 128
- Published: 1994-11-01
- Language: en_US