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The Comfort of StrangersRead about another novel on the list.
Ian McEwan
Never accept hospitality from strangers on holiday, at least, not if you’re in an Ian McEwan novel. “When you are tired, a hotel is not such a good place. I will make you so comfortable you’ll forget your terrible night…” says Robert, a stranger... whom Mary and Colin encounter in what might be Venice, were McEwan to grace the setting with anything as reassuring as a name. Holidays are journeys into the unknown, and this compelling, driven, sadistic novel explores what it might be like to lose yourself for ever
The Comfort of Strangers is on John Mullan's list of ten of the best visits to Venice in literature.
--Marshal Zeringue
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