Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan has been writing fiction since the 1970's and has written many bestsellers and received numerous literary awards and glowing critical acclaim....
It is difficult to sum up McEwan's writing...a few words and phrases spring to mind...bold, imaginative, frequently dark, unafraid to explore "taboo" subjects, compelling, sometimes shocking, intelligent, gripping...he writes like a surgeon at work, steadily stripping away layer after familiar layer of even the most ordinary and everyday ideas and principles until what's left is alien, raw and bleeding...he takes comfort and familiarity and reveals the monsters lurking within...
The purpose of this lens is simply to share my enjoyment of Ian McEwan's work...each novel now has a separate page of it's own, so if you want detailed information about a particular novel or short story, click the link provided below.
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Ian McEwan - Contents
- A brief biography of Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan At A Glance...
- Ian McEwan's Awards
- Ian McEwan weblinks
- The Cement Garden By Ian McEwan
- The Comfort Of Stangers By Ian McEwan
- The Child In Time By Ian McEwan
- The Innocent By Ian McEwan
- Black Dogs By Ian McEwan
- Enduring Love By Ian McEwan
- Amsterdam By Ian McEwan
- Atonement By Ian McEwan
- Saturday By Ian McEwan
- On Chesil Beach By Ian McEwan
- First Love, Last Rites By Ian McEwan
- In Between The Sheets By Ian McEwan
- What's your favourite Ian McEwan book?
- Understanding Ian McEwan (UK Customers)
- Understanding Ian McEwan (USA Customers)
- Ian McEwan books on Ebay
- Ian McEwan Audiobooks on Ebay
- Movie versions of Ian McEwan's books on Ebay
- Ian McEwan Feedback
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A brief biography of Ian McEwan
A little about the man himself...
Ian Russell McEwan was born on June 21 1948 in Aldershot in England.The son of an army officer, the young McEwan spent much of his childhood travelling the world to wherever his father was posted - places as diverse as Singapore, Germany and North Africa.
He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a Batcheor of Arts degree in English Literature in 1970. He went on to take a Master of Arts degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia in 1971.
He started his writing career with short stories and sold his first to the New American Review in 1971.
Since then he has written ten novels and two collections of short stories (all of which I intend to review on this lens in the fullness of time).
Additionally he is also the author of several screenplays, childrens fiction, a play and an oratorio.
McEwan is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in 1999.
He was awarded a CBE in 2000.
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Ian McEwan At A Glance...
...from Wikipedia
Ian McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL, (born June 21, 1948) is a Booker Prize winning British novelist.
Ian McEwan's Awards
A list of literary awards Ian McEwan has been given for his work
The Comfort of Strangers - shortlisted for The Booker Prize For Fiction 1981
The Child In Time - Whitbread Novel Award 1987 and Prix Fémina Etranger (France 1993)
Enduring Love - shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1997
Amsterdam - The Booker Prize For Fiction 1998
Atonement - shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, the WH Smith Award for Fiction, the Whitbread Novel Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) and winner of the WH Smith Literary Award 2001 and the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (USA) in 2003
Saturday - James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2006
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Ian McEwan weblinks
Links to websites about Ian Mc Ewan and/or his works
- Ian McEwan Website: Homepage
- Website devoted to the British author Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Wikipedia page about Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan bio, bibliography and critical persepctive
- McEwan, Ian | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books
- The Guardian Unlimited page on Ian McEwan
- Ian McEwan Internet Movie Database
- Ian McEwan on IMDb
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The Cement Garden By Ian McEwan
Novel first published in 1978
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The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
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The Cement Garden is Ian McEwan's' first novel, originally published in 1978. A beautifully crafted, but very dark tale of childhood and lost innocence... This is how the novel starts; "It was not at all clear to me now why we had put her in the tr...
The Comfort Of Stangers By Ian McEwan
Novel first published in 1981
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The Comfort Of Strangers By Ian McEwan
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Ian McEwan's second novel first published in 1981. A bored couple journey to an un-named city in search of excitement. There they meet an enigmatic stranger who entangles them in a web from which there may be no escape... This is a horror novel. No...
The Child In Time By Ian McEwan
Novel first published in 1987
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The Child In Time By Ian McEwan
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Ian McEwan's third novel, first published in 1987. The Child In Time deals with the tragic and upsetting theme of child abduction. Stephen Lewis, a children's book author, takes his 3-year-old daughter Kate on a routine Saturday morning shopping tr...
The Innocent By Ian McEwan
Novel first published in 1989
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The Innocent By Ian McEwan
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"The Innocent" is Ian McEwan's third novel, first published in 1989. Leonard Markham is a young, idealistic English electronics engineer sent to Germany during the Cold War to work on an Anglo-American intelligence project. Finding 1950's Berlin a...
Black Dogs By Ian McEwan
Novel First Published In 1992
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Black Dogs By Ian McEwan
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Novel first published in 1992. In 1946, a young couple, Bernard and June, set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of evil so terrifying, it alters t...
Enduring Love By Ian McEwan
Novel first published in 1997
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Enduring Love By Ian McEwan
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Novel first published in 1997 On an ordinary spring day, during an ordinary picnic, the calm, organised, ordinary life of science writer Joe Rose is blown apart due to the repercussions of a tragic accident. Joe sees a hot-air balloon with a young b...
Amsterdam By Ian McEwan
Novel first published in 1998
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Amsterdam By Ian McEwan
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Novel first published in 1998 Two old friends attend the funeral of a woman who had been a friend and a lover to both men in the past. Her death from of a sudden debilitating disease has a profound effect upon them and they make a mutual pact, the o...
Atonement By Ian McEwan
Novel first published in 2001
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Atonement By Ian McEwan
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Novel first published in 2001 Film version 2007 The story follows the life of Briony Tallis, from naive teenager to elderly woman. In 1935, Briony 13 years old, an aspiring writer and the youngest child of a well-to-do English family is at that dif...
Saturday By Ian McEwan
Novel first published in 2005
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Saturday By Ian McEwan
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Novel first published in 2005 Saturday is the story of a day in the life of a 48 year old London neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne. The novel is set on Saturday, 15th February 2003. Henry wakes early filled with unease. His mind has been troubled since t...
On Chesil Beach By Ian McEwan
Novel first published in 2007
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On Chesil Beach By Ian McEwan
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Novel first published in 2007 On a summer evening in 1962, just before the "sexual revolution", two newlyweds sit down to dinner in the honeymoon suite of a Dorset hotel. Edward and Florence are both aged 22, both virgins and both are anticipating t...
First Love, Last Rites By Ian McEwan
A collection of short stories first published in 1975
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First Love, Last Rites By Ian McEwan
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First Love, Last Rites is Ian McEwan's first collection of short stories and was originally published in 1975. This collection was Ian McEwan's first published work and comprises a collection of eight short stories, all of which are summarised indiv...
In Between The Sheets By Ian McEwan
A collection of short stories first published in 1978
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In Between The Sheets By Ian McEwan
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A collection of short stories first published in 1978 Like McEwan's earlier short story collection, "First Love, Last Rites", the individual stories in "In Between The Sheets" are linked loosely by themes...in this case relationships and sex (both...
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Understanding Ian McEwan
(Understanding Contemporary British Literature)
"This is a discussion of the work of one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the 20th century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to feminism, concern with rationalism and science, use of moral perspective, and proclivity toward fragmentation. Malcolm offers close readings of McEwan's early short stories, which he recognizes as traditional and conservative in technique despite their shocking subject matter, and all of McEwan's novels. Employing the third novel, "The Child in Time", as the fulcrum for his discussion, Malcolm explores the themes of incest, espionage, moral self-flagellation, sexual fixation, political dysfunction, and personal antipathy evident in the other fiction. He illuminates the continuities obscured by the conventional approach to McEwan's fiction and raises the question whether McEwan is a novelist of brilliant fragments or of overall coherence."
The Fiction of Ian McEwan
(Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)
"This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan's fiction. Criticism is drawn from selections in academic essays and articles, and reviews in newspapers, journals, magazines and websites, with editorial comment providing context, drawing attention to key points and identifying differences in critical perspectives. The book features selections from published interviews with Ian McEwan and covers all of the writer's novels up to and including Saturday."
"In this survey, Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics, both as a stylist and as a serious thinker about the function and capacities of narrative fiction. His ability to make the serious popular, and the popular serious, signals McEwan's importance as a writer who has helped reinvigorate contemporary thinking about the novel. McEwan's novels treat issues that are central to our times: politics, and the promotion of vested interests; male violence and the problem of gender relations; science and the limits of rationality; nature and ecology; love and innocence; and the quest for an ethical worldview. Yet he is also an economical stylist: McEwan's readers are called upon to attend, not just to the grand themes, but also to the precision of his spare writing. McEwan occupies a central role in a new wave of British novelists whose mature writing began to emerge in the Thatcher era. He stands alongside Martin Amis, Graham Swift and Kazuo Ishiguro - those writers who fashioned an ethical vision for 'post-consensus' Britain in the 1980s and 1990s.
Although McEwan's later works are more overtly political, more humane, and more ostentatiously literary than the early work, Dominic Head uncovers the continuity as well as the sense of evolution through the oeuvre. Head makes the case for McEwan's prominence - pre-eminence, even - in the canon of contemporary British novelists."
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