Child in Time
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Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch‘Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty’ Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children’s books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen’s life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable – as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past – and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephen’s own childhood back into the present.
CONTRIBUTORS: Ian McEwan
EAN: 9780099755012
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 223 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Vintage Publishing
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GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Book Themes:
England, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Spooky...a wonderful novel, The Child in Time is an extraordinary achievement, It is marvellously written, moving, serious, readable... If you want to be appalled, refreshed, exhilarated, enlivened - read it, His masterpiece, Artistically, morally, and politically, he excels
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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Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch‘Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty’ Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children’s books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen’s life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable – as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past – and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephen’s own childhood back into the present.
CONTRIBUTORS: Ian McEwan
EAN: 9780099755012
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 223 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Vintage Publishing
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century
WIDTH: 129 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
England, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
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.
