Swung

By: Ewan Morrison

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Paperback | 1 August 2008 | Edition Number 1

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352 Pages

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It started as a joke. From the moment she first meets him Alice is aware that David is impotent. 'I'm impotent,' he says, 'in so many ways.' He's separated from his wife and daughter, an HR executive worried for his job at a Glaswegian TV company. She's American, wants to be an artist. They move in together. To start with she tells him stories, bedtime stories about couples having sex, them watching. Then Alice finds that David has gone further, and is logging on to swinging sites u horny housewives, couples willing to try anythinga Just as a joke, he says. Alice is intrigued. These people seem so honest, so open about needing to reach out and touch. And maybe this is the answer to David's problem. Maybe they need people like this to give them a love life. And so David and Alice plunge head first into the hidden world of Glasgow swinging, where no one is ugly and nothing is forbidden. Their journey ends at an orgy with nine other couples in the Black Room, where you can see nothing but feel everything. And there, finally, each of them finds what they have been searching for. Like Ewan Morrison's first book, the highly-praised The Last Book You Read and Other Stories, Swung is frank, funny, disturbing and compassionate. It confirms Morrison as a writer of great daring and huge gifts.

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Glasgow writer Ewan Morrison takes on the mantle of responsibility of writing a serious book about sex and carries it off with great success. It's difficult to believe that Swung is his first novel. It boasts a narrative control and sureness of touch... that would induce envy in many more experienced novelists... Swung is a beautifully crafted, completely realised and often inspirational book. It announces Morrison as one of the most interesting and exciting voices to emerge in Scottish fiction in recent years -- Irvine Welsh * Guardian *
Genuinely groundbreaking... Morrison is one of the most gifted and accomplished writers to have emerged in recent years -- Irvine Welsh
The best book on sex since John Updike's Couples. Ewan Morrison's brave, dirty, utterly honest account of the psychological side of swinging is a complete delight -- Matt Thorne
Though sex is its language, this is a novel about ageing and settling and messing things up again, with heart enough to make it hurt -- Hepzibah Anderson * Observer *
Swung is a book of real ambition, a wide ranging exploration of human needs that starts from the most unexpected of websites * Herald *

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