A review by paulataua
First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan

4.0

 

McEwan’s first  collection of short stories really hit me hard when I read them  in the seventies. It felt just  so  incredible that stories could deal  with  subjects that  were so taboo  in my world at  that  time. When I first joined GRs, I gave the book an immediate 5 stars   remembering its effect  on me back  then. It  was now time to revisit them. The stories still hold up, but are seem to not be so outlandish now with  much  worse being in print these days. It  is really the work  of a young writer learning his trade.  Still engaging, still  a good read, but maybe  dropping to 4 stars this time.