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Overview
Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable.
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Editions
London: Cape, 1978 (144 p., ISBN: 0224015567).
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978 (153 p., ISBN: 0671242903).
London : Pan Books, 1979 (127 p., ISBN: 0330256653).
New York: Berkeley Books, 1980 (168 p., ISBN: 0425047199)
New York: Penguin Books, 1990 (153 p., ISBN: 0140112812).
New York: Vintage Books, 1994 (153 p., ISBN: 0679749837).
London: Vintage, 1997 (134 p., ISBN: 0099754711).
Sous les draps: et autres nouvelles (French / Trans. by Françoise Cartano). Paris: Gallimard, 1997 (359 p., ISBN: 2070410609).
Entre las sábanas (Spanish / Trans. by Federico Corriente). Barcelona: Anagrama, 2000 (181 p., ISBN: 8433969137).
Selected Reviews and Criticism
Moorehead, Caroline, 'Who Else But Ian McEwan Would Put a Lover in Ape's Clothing', The Times (London), 14 January 1978: 14.
Blackwood, Caroline. 'De Disgustibus', Times Literary Supplement, 3956, 20 January 1978: 53.
Brein, Alan, 'Too Close to Humanity', The Times (London), 22 January 1978: 41.
Williams, Nigel. 'Bizarrerie', The Listener, 26 January 1978: 127.
Paulin, Tom, 'Evidence of Neglect', Encounter, 50:6, June 1978: 70-71.
Winch, Terence. 'Writing on the Razor's Edge', Washington Post Book World, 5 August 1979: 1, 3.
Leonard, John, 'Books of the Times', New York Times, 14 August 1979: C12.
Moynahan, Julian. 'In an Advanced Modern Manner: In Between the Sheets', New York Times Book Review, 26 August 1979: 9, 20.
Yourgou, Barry. 'Snot, Sex, and Something New', Village Voice, 27 August 1979: 88.
Pritchett, V. S. 'Shredded Novels: In Between the Sheets', New York Review of Books, 24 January 1980: 31-32.