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On one of their many journeys in his rowing boat on the Thames, however, Jenny and the baby Alice drown and die.

"Last Day of Summer" is an eerily haunting story of a twelve-year-old boy who, having lost his own mother, finds another mother figure in Jenny, a large woman who comes to stay with him.

The book is composed of eight short stories, with the title story coming seventh:

They allowed me to try out different things, to discover myself as a writer." As a piece of work that portrays McEwan, the writer, at his youngest, it is perhaps fitting that the dominant theme is that of adolescence, of the blurry and perilous divide between childhood and adulthood in addition themes of sex, perversion, and the grotesque in its many forms feature throughout. In an interview with Christopher Ricks in 1979, McEwan commented, "They were a kind of laboratory for me. The collection is McEwan's first published work and was regarded by the author (along with his second collection of short stories, In Between the Sheets) as an opportunity to experiment and find his voice as a writer. It was first published in 1975 by Jonathan Cape, with cover designed by Bill Botten, and re-issued in 1997 by Vintage. OL1855902W Page_number_confidence 91.67 Pages 182 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210709085030 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 270 Scandate 20210707125852 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780099754718 Tts_version 4.First Love, Last Rites is a collection of short stories by Ian McEwan.

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