The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan.A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress – passive, yet beautiful – but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and despair. And an ape reflects on the relationship with a young female writer, mourning their fading love and musing on the fateful deceptions of art. In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision.‘Resonant and frightening...totally original’ Observer‘Exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing’ The Times
CONTRIBUTORS: Ian McEwanEAN: 9780099754718COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 157 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Vintage PublishingDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Short Stories (single author)WIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
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Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Resonant and frightening...totally original, His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing, McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind, He is an immediate master of styles and structures... One is struck by McEwan's gift of clarity, This is a writer whose plainest combination of words is, like the draughtsman's proverbial dot, unmistakeably telling
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.
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The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan.A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress – passive, yet beautiful – but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and despair. And an ape reflects on the relationship with a young female writer, mourning their fading love and musing on the fateful deceptions of art. In these seven stories of dream-like lucidity, the wasteland of the human psyche is mapped with deadly precision.‘Resonant and frightening...totally original’ Observer‘Exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing’ The Times
CONTRIBUTORS: Ian McEwanEAN: 9780099754718COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 157 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Vintage PublishingDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Short Stories (single author)WIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
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.
I was truly blessed to hear this book read aloud by the author herself. As a teacher, I have to give Refiloe five stars as she held those six year old's in the palm of her hand. If any of you know children, you know they have the concentration of a flea! The children, however, were spellbound, for just under a hour. When I reflected back on how successful the author's visit was I realized, it was the content of the book that captured their hearts. Every child could relate to one or other theme that was addressed in this beautifully illustrated book. If truth be told, it was also magnificently presented. Refiloe is a dynamic orator. Many more schools need to have her books on their library shelves and allow her to grace them with her presence.
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