· Winner of this year’s Booker Prize, McEwan’s latest (Black Dogs, ; Enduring Love, ) is a smartly written tale that devolves slowly into tricks and soapy vapors. When she dies of a sudden, rapidly degenerative illness, London glamour photographer Molly Lane is married to rich British publisher George Lane, although numerous erstwhile lovers still live and stir in the controversial Author: Kirkus Reviews. · Ian McEwan celebrates his victory at the Booker prize. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA. Tue 6 Dec EST. B ecause Booker prize deliberations go Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children's novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award/5().
A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Author interviews, book reviews and lively book commentary are found here. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. Amsterdam Ian McEwan, Author Doubleday $21 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES 'The Voice of Modern British Fiction' OTHER BOOKS. A Child in Time. Critique: Amsterdam - Ian McEwan. Ian McEwan has a reputation for good writing and that is in evidence in his novel, Amsterdam, which won the Man Booker Prize. He writes with a simplicity and clarity that makes reading this short book, less than pages, a quick and easy read. Despite the title, the majority of the action takes place in.
an McEwan's new novel, "Amsterdam," which won the Booker Prize in Britain this autumn, is a dark tour de force, a morality fable, disguised as a psychological thriller. The four McEwan novels--Booker Prize-winning Amsterdam, Enduring Love, Black Dogs, and The Innocent--included in this Reading Group Companion, showcase the author's range and skill as he delivers unlikely, and welcome, combinations of suspense, ethics, philosophy, and political and religious ideology. In lesser hands, such a mix might be lethal. Signed by Ian McEwan on the title page. Book is tightly bound and square with solid hinges, sharp tips and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($) and Fine.
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