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Title: ONE FREAKY READ...
Review: Ironically, The Comfort of Strangers was the book I had earmarked to tackle next when I read a recommendation of it by horror-writer, Jeanne Cavelos. She lists it as an "innovative horror novel." Is The Comfort of Strangers a horror novel? Yes. Is it a literary novel? Yes. No one can better bridge these two categories than Ian McEwan.I can't give away much of the plot - the book is far too short. A vacationing couple meets a mysterious stranger and strange things ensue. The city they are traveling in "may or may not be Venice," according to the book's back cover. For me, it works better to picture Venice. It evokes both Death in Venice and Don't Look Now, and fits in well with the tone of the novel.Read this as horror or read this as literary fiction. Just don't expect a predictable payoff.
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