Abstract:an English novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter, whose ravishingly refined prose style intensifies his own subversive humour and disquieting subject matter, has published more than ten novels. His work falls into two distinct periods: an early one, culminating in the publication of his short story collections First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Beh\>een the Sheets(\91'S), earns McEwan the reputation o f a controversial writer who is obsessed with "the perverse, the grotesque, and the macabre"; his l… Show more
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