First Love, Last Rites By Ian Mc Ewan - a collection of short stories
First Love, Last Rites is Ian McEwan's first collection of short stories and was originally published in 1975.
This collection was Ian McEwan's first published work and comprises a collection of eight short stories, all of which are summarised individually on this page.
All of the stories in First Love, Last Rites are linked with the central themes of sex, death and obsession and all bar one have a supplemental theme of adolescence (or at the very least young adulthood). All the stories are seen from a male perspective.
The stories are all on adult themes and contain references to sexual behaviours and violence which may disturb some readers.
"First Love, Last Rites" won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976.
"First Love, Last Rites" By Ian McEwan - Contents
- Solid Geometry by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
- Homemade by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
- Last Day Of Summer by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
- Cocker At The Theatre by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
- Butterflies by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
- Conversation With A Cupboard Man by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
- First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
- Disguises by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
- Review Of "First Love, Last Rites" By Ian McEwan
- "First Love, Last Rites" By Ian McEwan On Wikipedia
- "First Love, Last Rites" By Ian McEwan On Amazon (UK Customers)
- "First Love, Last Rites" By Ian McEwan On Amazon (USA Customers)
- More About The Author - Ian McEwan
- More Short Stories By Ian McEwan
- Films - "First Love, Last Rites" & "Butterflies" on Amazon
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- Novels By Ian McEwan
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Solid Geometry by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
A dark tale of a man who finds a novel solution to the demands made on him by his neglected wife...
Ultimately the diaries provide him with an unusual way to remove his annoying wife from his life permanently...
Homemade by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
An unpleasant tale about a very unpleasant teenage boy...
He panics when it seems his friend knows more about sexual matters than he does.
He decides that at any cost, he will be the first to lose his virginity...
Last Day Of Summer by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
Bittersweet tale of a young boy who finds someone to love...
Jenny is kind and funny and grows very close to the boy and his young niece Alice who is somewhat neglected by her mother.
The boy likes to take Jenny and Alice out in his rowing boat on the Thames, and on the last day of the school holidays, the three take one final boat trip before the summer ends...
Cocker At The Theatre by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
Very short tale set in a theatre...
Rehearsals are interrupted when the director realises that one couple aren't acting...
Butterflies by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
A lonely man turns into every parents worst nightmare...
On one of his walks into the rougher part of the town he lives in, he meets a young girl who seems interested in talking to him. Grateful for her company, he lets her walk along with him and agrees to buy her a doll she sees in a shop window. They walk onwards...
Conversation With A Cupboard Man by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
Mother love gone badly wrong...
First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
A young couple finds their idyllic existance threatened...
Disguises by Ian McEwan (from First Love, Last Rites)
A tale of cross-dressing...
Review Of "First Love, Last Rites" By Ian McEwan
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"First Love, Last Rites" By Ian McEwan On Wikipedia
First Love, Last Rites is a collection of short stories by Ian McEwan. It was first published in 1975 by Jonathan Cape and re-issued in 1997 by Vintage.
"First Love, Last Rites" By Ian McEwan On Amazon (UK Customers)
"This book of short stories is from the early part of McEwan's career and there is an almost constant emphasis on the Dark Side of Existence that comes close to making the book seem a little juvenile. However, the stories are so consistently well-written that everything in them is convincing in their own terms, whether they depict mundane cruelty and tragedy or show the more imagnitive side of McEwan as in the opening story, 'Solid Matter' and 'Conversation with a Cupboard Man'. 'Homemade' and 'Butterflies' are the two most distasteful, tales of sexual abuse told by the abuser, but both are compelling and memorable. It's in 'First Love, Last Rites', however, the story which provides the book's title, that McEwan really shows the promise that flowers in his novels, an intensely atmospheric narrative that deftly draws the reader in."
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"Approaching Ian McEwan for the first time, it seemed only natural that I begin with this collection of eight short stories, his first published work. I must say that McEwan leaves quite an impression on the reader. In fact, these stories are quite unlike anything I have ever read. One is hard pressed to determine just how to feel about the stories told here, attempting to integrate shock, sympathy, understanding, depression, ennui, enlightenment, and all manner of other reactions into some sort of vision of enlightenment. The first thing that becomes apparent is McEwan's boldness and unique vision; he uses some words that never find themselves into the published works of most other writers, but his employment of them seems to be a matter of craft rather than an act of gratuitousness..."
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