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Atonement
Ian McEwan
ATONEMENT, which Ian McEwan has called his "Jane Austen novel," is divided into three sections, reaching from the first chapter, set in 1935, to a startling coda in the early 2000s....... read more
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Saturday
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan's unusual novel takes place over the course of one day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon named Henry Perowne--a happy man and a decent one. On Saturday, February...... read more
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Amsterdam
Ian McEwan
Molly, the wife of a publisher, sinks swiftly and unexpectedly into madness and death. Two of her ex-lovers meet at her funeral. One is a famous composer working on his chef d'oeuvre,...... read more
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On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
This slim, subtle, and devastating novella from Ian McEwan uses surgical precision to expose the psychological slips and physical mischances that threaten to ruin a young couple's...... read more
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The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan
McEwan's first novel is about a perverse family in which the children bury their mother in cement and the eldest son calmly deflowers his sister while another sibling looks on. Many...... read more
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Enduring Love
Ian McEwan
In the aftermath of a tragedy, a young man named Jed Parry falls in love with Joe Rose, a science writer with a girlfriend he adores, and against all evidence insists that Joe loves...... read more
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The Comfort of Strangers
Ian McEwan
Colin and Mary, vacationing in a city very much like Venice, are not having a good time. Then they meet Robert, a seedy and somewhat sinister bar owner, and his wife--and find that...... read more
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The Child in Time
Ian McEwan
THE CHILD IN TIME begins on a Saturday morning when Stephen Lewis and his 3-year-old daughter, Kate, go to the supermarket. As they wait in line, she is kidnapped -suddenly, inexplicably,...... read more
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Black Dogs
Ian McEwan
The narrator delves into the history of his in-laws, June and Bernard, who fell in love during World War II, joined the Communist party, and honeymooned in France. There, June left...... read more
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The Innocent
Ian McEwan
It's 1955, and Leonard Marnham is a postal employee in postwar Berlin when he is conscripted to do undercover work. Leonard joins a telephone espionage project, the Berlin Tunnel,...... read more
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The Daydreamer
Ian McEwan
A web of related stories about a 10-year-old loner named Peter Fortune, whose outwardly ordinary life is enhanced by the bizarre adventures into which his imagination leads him. He...... read more
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