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Flesh on Flesh; a semi-Austenesque novel from Ian McEwan.('Atonement')
Ian McEwan, whose novels have tended to be short, smart, and saturnine, has produced a beautiful and majestic fictional panorama, "Atonement" (Doubleday; $26). The novel's first half takes place over two summer days in 1935, on a Surrey estate occupied by the Tallis family: Jack, the head of the household, whose work for the Ministry of Defense keeps him night after night in London; Emily, his wife, who is prone to migraines and long spells of daydreaming in her bed; Leon, the eldest child and only son, twenty-five and working in London in a modest position at a bank, though he has a law degree; his sister Cecilia, younger by two years, fresh from her finals at Cambridge, ...
- Ian McEwan: Atonement.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: International Fiction Review Stovel, Nora Foster January 1, 2004 700+ words
Ian McEwan Atonement Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2002. Pp. 372. $21.00 British writer Ian McEwan--author of such novels as The Cement...of the Tallis charlady and protege of Jack Tallis--who has won a first in English literature...
- The thinker; Ian McEwan.(Ian McEwan's new novel)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 5, 2005 700+ words
...days, predatory and doomed." This is the opening to "Saturday", Ian McEwan's enthralling tenth novel. The book is a product of a world where...safe. But it is still hugely enjoyable for all that. Saturday. By Ian McEwan.
- Saying sorry; New fiction.(New fiction from Ian McEwan)('Atonement')(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 22, 2001 700+ words
Ian McEwan's new novel, about the real and the imaginary...justified in using the word "masterpiece", but Ian McEwan's new book really deserves to be called one...really is worthy of the Booker. Atonement. By Ian McEwan.
- Ian McEwan offered Rushdie shelter after 'fatwa'.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. February 16, 2009 700+ words
Ian McEwan offered Rushdie shelter after 'fatwa' London, Feb 16 (PTI) -- Booker prize winner Ian McEwan provided shelter to controversial Indian author Salman Rushdie when the latter was threatened with a 'fatwa' issued by Iranian leader...
- Bicontinental Best-Seller.(author Ian McEwan )(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Geracimos, Ann March 29, 1999 700+ words
Ian McEwan's Amsterdam is a psychological thriller that satirizes pompons newspaper...Atlantic. Unlike most British writers, I did not go to Oxford" says Ian McEwan with well-schooled aplomb, explaining that he just happens to live...
- Ian McEwan may face fine for removing stones from protected beach.(Brief...
- Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books April 3, 2007 700+ words
M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK author Ian McEwan could be facing a penalty of up to GBP2,000 for removing stones from a beach in Dorset as part of the research for his new book...
- Vandalizing time: Ian McEwan's 'The Child in Time.'
- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Slay, Jack, Jr. June 22, 1994 700+ words
At first, The Child in Time seems to be a radical departure from the violence and shock of Ian McEwan's earlier work. The novel is certainly a departure from the blood, pus, and semen that inundate his stories and previous novels...
- Uneasy street: Ian McEwan's darkly gorgeous Saturday holds up a perfectly...
- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine Richardson, Elaina April 1, 2005 700+ words
THE WONDERFUL BRITISH NOVEList Ian McEwan tends to inhabit a fictional world in which gruesome things happen to people when least expected (on a picnic, say, or during...
