books by Ian Mcewan
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Ian Mcewan
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 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 ...
On Chesil Beach
Ian Mcewan
Anchor
, 2008
On Chesil Beach-A short novel which is on target to capture the love of its readers
On Chesil Beach is another short novel by the fine English novelist Ian McEwan. As he has done so often before the novelist has the ability to focus on the defnining moment in a relationship. He does this with lush prose used to tell this poignant tale of lost love, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 - ...
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Anchor
, 2007
Fascinating reading
I liked this book so much, especially with the movie adaptation. As is often the case, the psychological insight of the original book was invigorating to read. It is hard to see that some of us found the story less to their liking. In comparison with some ...
Amsterdam: A Novel
Ian McEwan
Anchor
, 1999
I loved this book
This is my favorite book by McEwan and in my opinion it's much better than Atonement. Amsterdam is tricky and clever. It has the tone of a tough-minded English novel of the fifties but the brilliantly funny, ingeniously constructed plot of a P.G. Wodehouse book. One ...
The Cement Garden
Ian Mcewan
Anchor
, 1994
Disturbing tale of working-class Britain...
Ian McEwan is one of my favorite writers. He seems to focus either on the very educated, upper-crust of British society or the tough lower classes. This is definitely a story of the latter. The story, in a nutshell, is: The parents of a working class family die, ...
First Love, Last Rites: Stories
Ian Mcewan
Anchor
, 1994
Early McEwan, promising but patchy
"First Love, Last Rites (FLLR)" is Ian McEwan's first short story collection and while I love virtually every novel he has written so far - "Enduring Love", "Black Dogs" and "Atonement" are truly modern classics - FLLR is very early McEwan, showing promise but lacking ...
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Recorded Books
, 2007
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Ian McEwan
Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
, 2006
Black Dogs: A Novel
Ian McEwan
Anchor
, 1998
Two black dogs in Post WW2 Europe impact the future of a young couple
I love Ian McEwan's writing. His words are pure art on the page. In this 1992 novel, the promise of his future success as a novelist is very clear. This is a small book, a mere 160 pages, and yet he captures the very essence of the post-WW2 world in Europe. Told in ...
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
, 2002
Reminiscent of Henry James, but with metafiction
Ian McEwan's Atonement has the feel of classical literature: an elegant and slightly formal style, generous details, and a straightforward plot. Briony Tallis, a spoiled British 13 year old, spies her older sister Cecilia and the caretaker's son Robbie as they wrestle ...
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