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FIRST LOVE, LAST RITES Ian McEwan has written two collections of stories, First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets, and nine novels, The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Child in Time, The Innocent, Black Dogs, The Day dreamer, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, winner of the 1998 Booker Prize and, most recently, Atonement. He has also written several film scripts, including The Imitation Game, The Ploughman's Lunch, Sour Sweet, The Good Son and The Innocent. ALSO BY IAN McEWAN The Daydreamer In Between The Sheets The Cement Garden The Comfort Of Strangers The Child In Time The Innocent Black Dogs

Enduring Love Amsterdam Atonement The Imitation Game (plays for television) Or Shall We Die? (libretto for oratorio by Michael Berkeley) The Ploughman's Lunch (film script) Sour Sweet (film script) Ian McEwan First love, last rites VINTAGE Published by Vintage 1997 11 13 15 17 19 2.0 18 16 14 12 Copyright © Ian McEwan 1975 This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1975 Vintage Random House, 2,0 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SWiV 2SA Random House Australia (Pty) Limited 20 Alfred Street, Milsons Point, Sydney, New South Wales 2061, Australia Random House New Zealand Limited

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