books by Ian McEwan

books by Ian McEwan

books:

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan

Anchor, 2007

Beautifully written and engrossing.
Atonement is an extremely beautiful story about how differing perceptions of a single event can affect the lives of those involved, whether negatively or positively. This book is told in three parts and each part is from three different perspectives. The story ...

Amsterdam: A Novel

Ian McEwan

Anchor, 1999

Cutting Your Nose Off to Spite your Face!
This is a little sneaker of a story. I've never read Ian McEwan's work and it took a couple of chapters to get into the rhythm of the story, but it was worth it. I had no idea what to expect when I started, but it certainly wasn't what I received! In a word, IT WAS ...

The Comfort of Strangers

Ian Mcewan

Anchor, 1994

The Comfort of Strangers
Well written, perfectly crafted, scary as hell. Good movie version too with Julie Christi and Donald Sutherland. I'm a big Ian McEwan fan.

Saturday

Ian McEwan

Anchor, 2006

Excellent
This is a terrifically engaging and intelligent novel that is both meditative and pleasingly dense in vivid, narrative detail. Altough it swells with inner dialogue and deep explanation, there is deft movement to the story as it progresses from rumination to flashes of ...

Atonement

Ian McEwan

Vintage, 2002

Brilliant descriptive writing by a master novelist
This novel is an astonishing achievement from one of Britain's leading modern day novelists. It contains three very individual pieces of descriptive writing. The first is about family tensions in an upper-middle class English family in 1935 - in particular the tensions ...

The Innocent: A Novel

Ian McEwan

Anchor, 1998

The thrill lies not where you expect
McEwan creates well the atmosphere of a post-war, pre-wall Berlin, amplifying our imaginings. The interaction between Brits and Americans is full of subtle humor, and as it later turns out, great regard and humane understanding. The narrative is smooth and concerns an ...

The Child in Time

Ian Mcewan

Anchor, 1999

A wonderful mix of passion, introspection, and contemporary commentary
McEwan manages to take the theme of a kidnapped child and turn it into a story of courage, love, and hope, without dredging it in sentimentality and triteness. Not as immersed in irony as is ON CHESIL BEACH, it nevertheless manages to leave a lasting impression both as ...

Black Dogs: A Novel

Ian McEwan

Anchor, 1998

Black Dogs: A Novel
An extremely sophisticated look at two married people whose mental paths diverged at the very onset of their marriage many years in the past. The story is told by their son-in-law who clearly loves both people and seems to bring out the best of each. Historical ...

Enduring Love: A Novel

Ian Mcewan

Anchor, 1998

A Terse Literary Masterpiece on Obsessive Love from Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan's slender novel, "Enduring Love", moves along at such an episodic fast clip that it might remind readers more of an Ian Fleming James Bond tale, than as a sophisticated literary confection from one of Great Britain's - and truly the English language's - ...

On Chesil Beach

Ian Mcewan

Anchor, 2008

Jeweler's Eye
With meticulous precision, Ian McEwan examines the wedding night of an innocent couple, who marry in 1962 and spend their first night alone together at a hotel on Chesil Beach. In always elegant prose, McEwan displays his great gift for describing the particular and ...

The Cement Garden

Ian Mcewan

Anchor, 1994

Appalled or Titillated?
The premise of Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden is simple and haunting: four children are left alone in their empty neighborhood when both parents die. Convinced that if they reveal their secret they will be separated, they drag their mother's body to the cellar and ...

On Chesil Beach
Ian Mcewan

Vintage, 2008

The Daydreamer

Ian McEwan

Anchor, 2000

just what a little dreamer is looking for. - mysterious!
When I was around 8... 10? An avid readier, I remember finding this at the library and falling totally in love with its charm. When I couldn't remember the author's name and tried to find it again it seemed to have magically dissapeared as a book like this sort might. ...

Atonement (York Notes Advanced) (York Notes Advanced) (York Notes Advanced)
Ian McEwan

Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc., 2006

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In Between the Sheets

Ian Mcewan

Anchor, 1994

Early McEwan stories
I read a lot of books, but I generally avoid the more "literary" authors. There are exceptions, however, and Ian McEwan is one of those. I have enjoyed the other books of his I've read (including Atonement, Amsterdam and Enduring Love), but In Between the Sheets, his ...