Ian McEwan, Author , read by Josephine Bailey. Publishing Mills $24.95 (, abridged, four cassettes, 6 hrs., $24.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-57511-113-1
British actress Bailey delivers a superb reading of Booker Prize–winning author McEwan's (The Child in Time; Amsterdam) ninth novel. Told in three parts—before, during and after World War II—the novel follows the son of the...
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Ian McEwan. Doubleday/Talese, $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-54207-4
McEwan’s latest novel is short, smart, and narrated by an unborn baby. The narrator describes himself upside down in his mother’s womb, arms crossed, doing slow motion somersaults, almost full-term, wondering about the future. His mother listens to...
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Ian McEwan. Doubleday/Talese, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-53970-8
The 1989 Children Act made a child’s welfare the top priority of English courts—easier said than done, given the complexities of modern life and the pervasiveness of human weakness, as Family Court Judge Fiona Maye discovers in McEwan’s 13th novel (a
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Ian McEwan. Doubleday/Talese, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-53682-0
McEwan goes for laughs in this cold war spoof in which Serena Frome, one time math whiz, struggles through Cambridge and graduates in 1972 with an embarrassing third. For reasons never satisfactorily explained, a professor and former MI5 operative...
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Ian McEwan, Author Nan A. Talese $19.5 (149p) ISBN 978-0-385-42541-4
In this slim, provocative novel, McEwan ( The Innocent ) examines the conflict between intellect and feeling, as dramatized in one couple's troubled relationship. The narrator is fascinated by his wife's estranged parents, The lives of June and...
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Ian McEwan, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-385-41370-1
McEwan's name will be on everyone's lips with his startling new novel, an impeccably constructed psychological thriller set in Berlin during the Cold War. Basing his story on an actual (but little known) incident, he tells of the secret tunnel under
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Ian McEwan, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-395-42912-9
A sense of loss pervades this fine, provocative new novel by the author of The Comfort of Strangers. The protagonist, Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, is introduced to us in a scene more frightening than any from a horror...
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Ian McEwan, Author Recorded Books $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4193-3287-6
Crossley offers a smart, measured performance of McEwan's cerebral novel about an ominous day seen through the eyes of Henry Perowne, a reflective neurosurgeon whose comfortable life is shaken following a run-in with a street thug. Crossley's...
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Ian McEwan, Author Nan A. Talese $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-49112-9
The stunning beginning of McEwan's latest novel delivers a vivid visceral jolt: six men run across a verdant English field, each bent on rescuing a man dangling by a rope from a helium balloon while a small boy cowers in the basket, about to be...
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Ian McEwan, Author Anchor Books $13.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-679-75018-5
A novel and a collection of short stories by English writer McEwan offer chilling portraits of sexual obsession. (Jan.)
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Ian McEwan, Author Doubleday $21 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-49423-6
As swift as a lethal bullet and as timely as current headlines, McEwan's Booker Prize-winning novel is a mordantly clever--but ultimately too clever for its own good--exploration of ethical issues. Two longtime friends meet at the cremation of the...
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Ian McEwan, Author . Doubleday/Talese $26.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-385-53341-6
Booker Prize–winner McEwan (On Chesil Beach
; Atonement
) once again deploys domestic strife to examine the currents of worldwide change. This time, McEwan shoots for the sun, with the promise of solar energy gradually legitimizing itself in...
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Ian McEwan, Author . Doubleday $22 (203p) ISBN 978-0-385-52240-3
Not quite novel or novella, McEwan's masterful 13th work of fiction most resembles a five-part classical drama rendered in prose. It opens on the anxious Dorset Coast wedding suite dinner of Edward Mayhew and the former Florence Ponting, married
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Ian McEwan, Author . Doubleday/Talese $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-51180-3
In the predawn sky on a Saturday morning, London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne sees a plane with a wing afire streaking toward Heathrow. His first thought is terrorism—especially since this is the day of a public demonstration against the pending
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Ian McEwan, Author . Doubleday/Talese $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-50395-2
This haunting novel, which just failed to win the Booker this year, is at once McEwan at his most closely observed and psychologically penetrating, and his most sweeping and expansive. It is in effect two, or even three, books in one, all...
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Ian McEwan, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-024426-2
Most grown-ups think Peter Fortune is a difficult child because he is so quiet: they ``knew that something was going on inside that head, but they couldn't hear it or see it or feel it. They couldn't tell Peter to stop it, because they didn't know...
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Ian McEwan, Author, Anthony Browne, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $5.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-053015-0
Most grownups think that 10-year-old Peter Fortune is a difficult child because he is so quiet, but through his daydreams he learns to see the world from numerous points of view. In a starred review, PW
said, "McEwan's vivid and poetic...
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Ian McEwan, read by Roger Allam, Recorded Books, unabridged. nine CDs, 11.5 hours, $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4498-1951-4
In the afterglow of winning a Nobel Prize, Michael Beard lives a dismal life marked by multiple marriages, figurehead positions, and his own gluttony. However, after his most recent wife leaves him, Beard attempts to start living life to the fullest.
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Ian McEwan, Author, Ian McEwan, Read by , read by the author. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-4371-5
It should not come as a surprise that Florence and Edward, newlyweds who cannot discuss their previous sexual experiences (or lack thereof), do not communicate out loud with one another until all their emotions boil over at the conclusion of the...
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Ian McEwan. Doubleday/Talese, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-54511-2
McEwan’s thought-provoking novel (after Nutshell) is about the increasingly fraught relationship between a man, a woman, and a synthetic human. Opening in an alternate 1982 London in which technology is not dissimilar from today’s (characters text...
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Ian McEwan. Anchor, $11 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-593-08242-3
In this slight, occasionally diverting satirical exercise about the follies of Brexit from McEwan (Machines Like Me), a Machiavellian cockroach advances a disastrous economic policy. The roach emerges from the “pleasantly decaying” Palace of...
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Ian McEwan. Knopf, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-593-53520-2
McEwan returns with his best work since the NBCC-winning Atonement, a sprawling narrative that stretches from the commencement of the Cold War to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Protagonist Roland Baines, “another inky boy in a boarding school,”
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