'His stories are so resonant and frightening because they are totally original. They are about the recognisable world of private fantasy and nightmare - a world, despite our protestations to the contrary, we are all involved in' - Observer
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.
Resonant and frightening...totally original
*Observer*
His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing
*The Times*
McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary
mind
*New York Times Book Review*
He is an immediate master of styles and structures... One is struck
by McEwan's gift of clarity
*New York Review of Books*
This is a writer whose plainest combination of words is, like the
draughtsman's proverbial dot, unmistakeably telling
*Financial Times*
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
