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Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an idyllic holiday, but in France they witness an event that alters the course of their lives entirely. Forty years on, their son-in-law is trying to uncover the cause of their estrangement and is led back to this moment on honeymoon and an experience of such darkness it was to wrench the couple apart.‘Powerful... Unforgettable’ Sunday Telegraph‘Thoughtful and compassionate’ London Review of Books
CONTRIBUTORS: Ian McEwanEAN: 9780099277088COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 197 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Vintage PublishingDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / GeneralWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
France, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Powerful... Unforgettable, His best yet, which I should make clear is saying a great deal, Brilliant...a meditation on the intoxications of violence and the redemptive power of love, Superbly evocative prose... The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities, Compassionate without resorting to sentimentality, clever without ever losing its honesty, an undisguised novel of ideas which is also Ian McEwan's most human work
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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Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an idyllic holiday, but in France they witness an event that alters the course of their lives entirely. Forty years on, their son-in-law is trying to uncover the cause of their estrangement and is led back to this moment on honeymoon and an experience of such darkness it was to wrench the couple apart.‘Powerful... Unforgettable’ Sunday Telegraph‘Thoughtful and compassionate’ London Review of Books
CONTRIBUTORS: Ian McEwanEAN: 9780099277088COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 197 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Vintage PublishingDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / GeneralWIDTH: 129 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
France, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships
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.
