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Nutshell by Ian McEwan Pdf, Epub, Kindle, Download & Read. Read & Download ebooks-pdfs.com. McEwan enables us, along with the growing fetus, to visualize what is. This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Nutshell. This guide was created using the following version of this text: McEwan, Ian. New York: Doubleday, 2016. Nutshell is a guide in miniature to McEwan’s own oeuvre. Photograph: Murdo Macleod This is a short novel narrated by a foetus who is also Hamlet. “Bounded in the nutshell” of (Ger-) Trudy. In Nutshell we meet his most reliable narrator. Should we trust him just because he hasn’t yet been spoiled by the outside world? What other Ian McEwan novels have you read? Discuss the arc of McEwan’s writing career: his themes, his literary tropes, his plots and characters. Where does this novel fit in that arc?
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Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master.
To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the.more
To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the.more
Published September 13th 2016 by Nan A. Talese (first published September 1st 2016)
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Sep 06, 2016Warwick rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
The start of this book feels like McEwan in elder statesman mode, sitting down at his laptop, rolling up his sleeves and saying, ‘Right, out the way, fuckwads, let me show you how it's done.’ It's so conspicuously brilliant, so controlled and aware and unusual, that although the rest of the book can't quite sustain the ferocity of the first fifty pages, still this rarely felt like it was going to be be getting less than full marks from me.
Nutshell is a sly contemporary version of Hamlet, where t.more
Nutshell is a sly contemporary version of Hamlet, where t.more
Sep 20, 2016Elyse Walters rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
WOW..
Isn't that what everyone says to themselves when they read this?
It's so original, that I'm almost surprised it has not been written until now.
There is beautiful prose --- and then there is BEAUTIFUL PROSE!!!! I'm a little flabbergasted. I've been an Ian McEwan fan from way back.but this little slim book blows my mind. I think it's pure genius. Genuinely - I could not have loved this 'creation' more. I will definitely read it again.
I don't study Shakespeare- (my daughter did her ent.more
Aug 20, 2016Debbie rated it it was amazingIsn't that what everyone says to themselves when they read this?
It's so original, that I'm almost surprised it has not been written until now.
There is beautiful prose --- and then there is BEAUTIFUL PROSE!!!! I'm a little flabbergasted. I've been an Ian McEwan fan from way back.but this little slim book blows my mind. I think it's pure genius. Genuinely - I could not have loved this 'creation' more. I will definitely read it again.
I don't study Shakespeare- (my daughter did her ent.more
Shelves: favorite-thrillers, 2017-best-reads, all-time-favorites, thriller, favorite-authors, blew-my-mind, cultural, mostly-not-set-in-u-s
OMG OMG OMG! This book really did knock my socks off. In fact, it goes on my all-time favorites list. Who could resist this bizarro opening line?
So here I am, upside down in a woman. Arms patiently crossed, waiting, waiting and wondering who I’m in, what I’m in for.
Okay, so there are some very good writers who can give you very good characters and very good metaphors and a very good plot with very good prose.
And then there's Ian McEwan. A genius. This guy, he's in a league of his own. His word p.more
So here I am, upside down in a woman. Arms patiently crossed, waiting, waiting and wondering who I’m in, what I’m in for.
Okay, so there are some very good writers who can give you very good characters and very good metaphors and a very good plot with very good prose.
And then there's Ian McEwan. A genius. This guy, he's in a league of his own. His word p.more
Jul 30, 2016Diane S ☔ rated it liked it · review of another edition
A book that is narrated by an eight month old fetus. He describes what he see and hears, from his father and his love of poetry to the nefarious plans of his mother and his uncle, his father's own brother.
So why did I have such a disconnect with this book? The writing is wonderful, amazing in places. Was it that I had a hard time envisioning a fetus using this level of thought and speech? Not sure, though I did find myself occasionally shaking my head at the thought especially since I am not a.more
Sep 13, 2016Adina rated it it was amazing · review of another editionSo why did I have such a disconnect with this book? The writing is wonderful, amazing in places. Was it that I had a hard time envisioning a fetus using this level of thought and speech? Not sure, though I did find myself occasionally shaking my head at the thought especially since I am not a.more
Shelves: netgalley, mcewan-barnes-coetzee-and-co, favorites, british
Update 2: I found another interview with the author in a podcast. I had no idea McEwan is so funny. People at work were probably wondering why I was giggling while listening to this. Recommended!(it starts at minute 26 after the interview with Margaret Atwood).
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/in.
Update: I found an interview of the author regarding the novel, how he got the idea to write it and where it stands in relation to his other works. https://www.facebook.com/vintagebooks.
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Update: I found an interview of the author regarding the novel, how he got the idea to write it and where it stands in relation to his other works. https://www.facebook.com/vintagebooks.
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Sep 09, 2016Trin rated it did not like it
A modern retelling of Hamlet, narrated by the infant prince from inside his mother's womb. It is every bit as insufferable as that sounds.
Ian McEwan is one of those writers who, having been crowned an author of literature, thinks he can write any piece of cracked-out nonsense and know it will be treated as a serious work. Is he taking the piss? Who knows. What I do know is: this book is a joke. I've liked other works of McEwan's, although even my favorite, Sweet Tooth, contained elements that we.more
Ian McEwan is one of those writers who, having been crowned an author of literature, thinks he can write any piece of cracked-out nonsense and know it will be treated as a serious work. Is he taking the piss? Who knows. What I do know is: this book is a joke. I've liked other works of McEwan's, although even my favorite, Sweet Tooth, contained elements that we.more
Mar 28, 2017Hannah Greendale rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.
A nine-month-old baby boy resides in the womb of Trudy. Unaware that her baby is listening and is witness to all she does, Trudy concocts a sinister scheme with a mysterious cohort, a deceitful plan of betrayal and, possibly, murder.
Nutshell brings one of the most unique perspectives to storytelling. The limitations of writing an entire narrative from the viewpoint of a baby in the womb is not without its c.more
A nine-month-old baby boy resides in the womb of Trudy. Unaware that her baby is listening and is witness to all she does, Trudy concocts a sinister scheme with a mysterious cohort, a deceitful plan of betrayal and, possibly, murder.
Nutshell brings one of the most unique perspectives to storytelling. The limitations of writing an entire narrative from the viewpoint of a baby in the womb is not without its c.more
Oct 09, 2017Jim Fonseca rated it really liked it
We know the plot (although not the outcome) from the blurbs and the first chapter. A pregnant woman is having an affair with her husband’s brother. He’s a dreamy type – a poet by trade, if we can consider that a trade, but he has inherited his family house in London worth millions. They plot how and when to kill him. He still loves her but they are separated; he’s living in a dingy apartment.
What gives the book its unique perspective is who is telling the story: the fetus of the pregnant woman..more
Jul 09, 2016Roger Brunyate rated it it was amazingWhat gives the book its unique perspective is who is telling the story: the fetus of the pregnant woman..more
Shelves: sui-generis, comedy-sorta, top-ten-2016, hogarth-shakespeare, fantasy-surreal
Hamlet in Utero
Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space—were it not that I have bad dreams.I could check online, I suppose, but I suspect there is a story here. Is it a coincidence that, within months of the launch of the Hogarth Shakespeare series, in which famous authors (so far Jeanette Winterson, Howard Jacobson, Anne Tyler, and Margaret Atwood) are asked to retell Shakespeare plays in their own words, Ian McEwan (surely the equal of any of them) sho.more
Sep 24, 2016Fionnuala added it · review of another edition
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The narrator is a middle-aged brain trapped inside an unborn baby, itself trapped inside a novel, the events of which the narrator can’t see happening because he's in the dark, much like the reader, but nonetheless, he, the narrator, can recount the events once he’s heard that they’ve happened, and his account is very entertaining even if critical of the crazy plot and unbelievable characters, but unlike the reader, who can abandon the book anytime she wishes, the narrator can’t seem to make up.more
Apr 05, 2017Robin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: literary-fiction, english, 2017, novella
Hamlet in utero: daring idea resonates with Bardly brilliance
We all know the basic concept of Hamlet, even if it's been years since we read it in university, or watched Kenneth Branagh's soliloquies (or Mel Gibson, ergh). He's the guy who's fretting constantly, whose fatal flaw is inaction. He can wax poetic like none other, but that's about all he does, bless him.
Well, Ian McEwan had the fantastical idea to resurrect dear Hamlet, in the form of a 3rd trimester foetus. Said foetus (who articul.more
We all know the basic concept of Hamlet, even if it's been years since we read it in university, or watched Kenneth Branagh's soliloquies (or Mel Gibson, ergh). He's the guy who's fretting constantly, whose fatal flaw is inaction. He can wax poetic like none other, but that's about all he does, bless him.
Well, Ian McEwan had the fantastical idea to resurrect dear Hamlet, in the form of a 3rd trimester foetus. Said foetus (who articul.more
Sep 24, 2016Dem rated it liked it · review of another edition
A unique read but a tad too gimmicky for me.
Nut Shell by Ian McEwan is a story told from the perspective of a foetus. It's a tale of murder and deceit and is clever is its concept and prose.
Trudy has betrayed her husband John. She lives in the marital home which is a priceless London townhouse. She and her lover have a plan and its from the point of view of her 9 month old foetus that we lean what exactly is at foot.
I loved the opening line of the Novel ' So Here I Am, upside down in a woman..more
Nut Shell by Ian McEwan is a story told from the perspective of a foetus. It's a tale of murder and deceit and is clever is its concept and prose.
Trudy has betrayed her husband John. She lives in the marital home which is a priceless London townhouse. She and her lover have a plan and its from the point of view of her 9 month old foetus that we lean what exactly is at foot.
I loved the opening line of the Novel ' So Here I Am, upside down in a woman..more
Jun 03, 2017Dianne rated it it was amazing
Brilliant, twisted, witty and sardonic - the story itself seems a more George Saunders concept than Ian McEwan, but it's pure Ian McEwan in execution. The writing!! What language is this he uses to communicate with the reader? I know these words, but how he combines them is so pure, so organic, so perfect and true - I always feel as though I am experiencing the written word for the first time when I read him. Truly, I wish I could shake all the words out of his books and roll in them in pure hed.more
Apr 21, 2017Agnieszka rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I have rather stormy relationship with Ian McEwan. I quite enjoyed some of his novels while other works, to put it mildly, were a big letdown. The more I read him the more I felt irritated with look at me and admit I’m so fucking brilliant, Ian . He has a knack of picking only topical issues but sometimes I thought he was too clever to his own good; if he hadn’t been so focused on willingness to impress a reader, if he was not so impersonal and allowed the reader to enter his thoughts, if he wa.more
Apr 14, 2016Helle added it · review of another edition
It’s become a bookseller’s cliché to say that it’s an event when Ian McEwan has a new book out. Of course, it’s nonetheless true, and this, his latest novel, was promptly added to my to-read list the minute I heard of it and ordered the minute it came out. That creates pressure, and expectations.
These four days later, I’m not so sure. Certainly Nutshell proves McEwan’s skill, if anyone was still in doubt, but within what, I’m just not sure. Shakespearean craziness? Unlikely narrator? Implausibl.more
Nov 05, 2016Trish rated it it was amazing · review of another editionThese four days later, I’m not so sure. Certainly Nutshell proves McEwan’s skill, if anyone was still in doubt, but within what, I’m just not sure. Shakespearean craziness? Unlikely narrator? Implausibl.more
Shelves: british, fiction, crime-caper, mysteries, family, literature, parenting, poetry
In my mind’s eye is a vision of McEwan himself opening the door to detectives investigating a murder, and noticing everything about what they do, how they look, how their voices sound. He might begin to play on their curiosity a bit, making leading statements that drift off into nothingness…and then suddenly revive his tale with a stronger, quicker tone when they query his lead. Oh, you author of fictions, who plays so with our heads.
Oh course a real murder is not nearly so amusing as its fictio.more
Oct 12, 2016PattyMacDotComma rated it really liked it · review of another editionOh course a real murder is not nearly so amusing as its fictio.more
Shelves: fiction-adult, aa-patty, arc-netgalley-read-or-dnr, kindle
3.5★
Not a fan of this one. I like weird and wonderful if it is somehow believable. It needs to be plausible if we accept certain premises, like when we read a story narrated by someone who’s died. Once we accept the narrator as the actual teller of the story, then we can ‘believe’ the rest of it.
In this case, the narrator is the soon-to-be-born baby still in Trudy’s womb, eavesdropping on her life with her husband's brother, Claude, and their scheming to be free of her husband, John. The baby re.more
Not a fan of this one. I like weird and wonderful if it is somehow believable. It needs to be plausible if we accept certain premises, like when we read a story narrated by someone who’s died. Once we accept the narrator as the actual teller of the story, then we can ‘believe’ the rest of it.
In this case, the narrator is the soon-to-be-born baby still in Trudy’s womb, eavesdropping on her life with her husband's brother, Claude, and their scheming to be free of her husband, John. The baby re.more
Oct 17, 2016Darwin8u rated it really liked it
Alas poor phœtus! I knew him, McEwan: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me in his sac a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is!
Seriously, Hamlet + 3rd Trimester + Conspiracy + Poetry = funky magic. According to Christopher Booker*, 'there are only seven basic plots in the whole world -- plots that are recycled again and again in novels, movies, plays and operas.' Ian McEwan sucks the Hamlet story right up into the Queen of Denmark's uterus. Not.more
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me in his sac a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is!
Seriously, Hamlet + 3rd Trimester + Conspiracy + Poetry = funky magic. According to Christopher Booker*, 'there are only seven basic plots in the whole world -- plots that are recycled again and again in novels, movies, plays and operas.' Ian McEwan sucks the Hamlet story right up into the Queen of Denmark's uterus. Not.more
Jul 24, 2017Hugh rated it really liked it · review of another edition
My last experience of reading McEwan was On Chesil Beach which I found rather dreary and depressing and deterred me from reading his subsequent novels. Encouraged by the positive reviews, I have had this one on the shelf since the paperback came out last summer but have only just found the time to read it.
This is a book that really should not work, but it is a lively and enjoyable read full of surprises. Its central conceit - transplanting part of the story of Hamlet to modern Britain and making.more
Jan 26, 2017Iris P rated it it was amazing · review of another editionThis is a book that really should not work, but it is a lively and enjoyable read full of surprises. Its central conceit - transplanting part of the story of Hamlet to modern Britain and making.more
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Nutshell: A Novel
I think it would be inappropriate to use the word I am thinking of to describe this novel, because you know, polite company and all. Let's just say that Ian McEwan apparently set out to mess with our minds when he wrote this. This was the most wicked, mind-bending, highly original, maddening brilliant story! So I guess I am saying I love it.
Will come back with some thoughts :)
Shelves: fiction, psychology, drama, europe, singing_words, monologue, toi, uk
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Yes, this 200-odd pages of scheming a murder is seen through the eyes of a fetus from the womb of his mother, a party t.more
Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions.This wonderfully sapient insight springs somewhere in the middle of this book and almost gives away the rationale behind McEwan’s choice of protagonist - a fetus.
Yes, this 200-odd pages of scheming a murder is seen through the eyes of a fetus from the womb of his mother, a party t.more
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Feb 05, 2017Julie Christine rated it it was amazing Shelves: best-of-2017, british-isles-theme-setting, mystery-crime-thriller, read-2017
In the time it took me to write this review, Ian McEwan has written at least one more novel. I mean, seriously. Dude is prolific. Also brilliant. Deliciously dark and witty and, dammit. Even with his novels that I can't say I like, I never cease to marvel at what he can do with same words we all have at our disposal.
A master of restraint and brevity, McEwan's short works are perhaps his most astonishing literary achievements, and his latest, Nutshell, is a twisted wee delight.
The tale is narrat.more
Jan 18, 2017Margitte rated it really liked it · review of another editionA master of restraint and brevity, McEwan's short works are perhaps his most astonishing literary achievements, and his latest, Nutshell, is a twisted wee delight.
The tale is narrat.more
Shelves: british-author, reviewed, murder, 2016-releases, 2017-read, british-novels, suspense, drama, fiction, literary-novel
A wildly snobbish neonatal persona, Fetus Cairncross, introduces himself to the world in no uncertain terms:
'So here I am, upside down in a woman. Arms patiently crossed, waiting, waiting and wondering who I’m in, what I’m in for. My eyes close nostalgically when I remember how I once drifted in my translucent body bag, floated dreamily in the bubble of my thoughts through my private ocean in slow-motion somersaults, colliding gently against the transparent bounds of my confinement, the confidi.more
Aug 14, 2016Ron Charles rated it really liked it · review of another edition
“Nutshell,” Ian McEwan’s preposterously weird little novel, is more brilliant than it has any right to be. The plot sounds like something sprung from a drunken round of literary Mad Libs: a crime of passion based on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” narrated by a fetus.
That it should come to this!
If you can get beyond that icky premise, you’ll discover a novel that sounds like a lark but offers a story that’s surprisingly suspenseful, dazzlingly clever and gravely profound. To the extent that “Hamlet” is.more
Sep 29, 2016Bam rated it it was amazingThat it should come to this!
If you can get beyond that icky premise, you’ll discover a novel that sounds like a lark but offers a story that’s surprisingly suspenseful, dazzlingly clever and gravely profound. To the extent that “Hamlet” is.more
Shelves: i-own-it, 2016-reading-challenge, doubleday-keep-turning-pages-group, 2016-aty-reading-challenge, mystery, favorites
#2016-aty-reading-challenge-week-49: a book with a great opening line. 'So here I am, upside down in a woman. Arms patiently crossed, waiting, waiting, waiting, and wondering who I'm in, what I'm in for.' Actually, the entire first paragraph is tremendous--the plot told through the point of view of a fetus.
And this is no ordinary fetus. This one has been listening to podcasts through his mother's earbuds and already knows a great deal about world events, politics, environmental concerns, etc. A.more
And this is no ordinary fetus. This one has been listening to podcasts through his mother's earbuds and already knows a great deal about world events, politics, environmental concerns, etc. A.more
Dec 20, 2016Rebbie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
“To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things.”
― Ian McEwan, Nutshell: A Novel
Ahhh! I want to squeal in sheer delight at this book! I've never read a book this genius before, and especially not one from a writer who is deeply self-aware but also wonderfully modest at the same time.
The line I quoted is just one of a seemingly endless number.more
Oct 16, 2016Rebecca rated it really liked it · review of another edition― Ian McEwan, Nutshell: A Novel
Ahhh! I want to squeal in sheer delight at this book! I've never read a book this genius before, and especially not one from a writer who is deeply self-aware but also wonderfully modest at the same time.
The line I quoted is just one of a seemingly endless number.more
Shelves: suspense, newbury-library, best-of-2016, updated-classics
My seventh McEwan novel and one of his strongest. Within the first few pages, I was captivated and utterly convinced by the voice of this contemporary, in utero Hamlet. Provided you suspend disbelief a bit to accept he can see/hear/surmise everything that happens – the most tedious passages are those where McEwan tries to give more precise justification for his narrator’s observations – the plot really works. Not even born and already a snob with an advanced vocabulary and a taste for fine wine,.more
In Nutshell, a sort of modern take on 'Hamlet', a son becomes aware that his mother Trudy and her lover Claude are planning to murder his father John - who happens to be Claude's brother. The twist in Ian McEwan's novel is that the son, and narrator of the book, is a late term fetus..in utero.
The not-yet-born baby, who's preternaturally knowledgable and articulate, explains that he got his smarts from overheard conservations and the many podcasts his mother listens to. (The descriptions of t.more
Aug 01, 2016Jill rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
The 400th birthday of William Shakespeare has prompted the literary world to pay homage. Recently, several Hogarth Shakespeare series have been released: Jeanette Winterson’s retelling of The Winter’s Tale, Howard Jacobson’s rendering of The Merchant of Venice, Anne Tyler’s take on The Taming of the Shrew and soon, Margaret Atwood’s re-imagining of The Tempest.
Is it a coincidence, then, that Ian McEwan decided on his own to take on one of the greatest challenges in literature: the tale of Hamlet.more
Sep 04, 2018Suzanne rated it really liked itIs it a coincidence, then, that Ian McEwan decided on his own to take on one of the greatest challenges in literature: the tale of Hamlet.more
Shelves: borrowbox-btown-audio, library-at-the-hub
I took no notes as this was an audio read, there would have been so many gems to quote. And what an outstanding narrator to have tell this story. I say to everyone who will listen that I am not a fan of literary fiction, but in this instance, I have to eat my words. I loved this! It was a bloody good book.
Told bizarrely from the perspective of Master unborn foetus, closely watching, living and breathing his deceitful mother and soon to be uncle, scheme and plot the demise of his poor father.
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Told bizarrely from the perspective of Master unborn foetus, closely watching, living and breathing his deceitful mother and soon to be uncle, scheme and plot the demise of his poor father.
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Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and.more
McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and.more
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“A strange mood has seized the almost-educated young. They're on the march, angry at times, but mostly needful, longing for authority's blessing, its validation of their chosen identities. The decline of the West in new guise perhaps. Or the exaltation and liberation of the self. A social-media site famously proposes seventy-one gender options – neutrois, two spirit, bigender…any colour you like, Mr Ford. Biology is not destiny after all, and there's cause for celebration. A shrimp is neither limiting nor stable. I declare my undeniable feeling for who I am. If I turn out to be white, I may identify as black. And vice versa. I may announce myself as disabled, or disabled in context. If my identity is that of a believer, I'm easily wounded, my flesh torn to bleeding by any questioning of my faith. Offended, I enter a state of grace. Should inconvenient opinions hover near me like fallen angels or evil djinn (a mile being too near), I'll be in need of the special campus safe room equipped with Play-Doh and looped footage of gambolling puppies. Ah, the intellectual life! I may need advance warning if upsetting books or ideas threaten my very being by coming too close, breathing on my face, my brain, like unwholesome drugs.” — 30 likes
“It's already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from us, the soft tumble of unremarkable thoughts, the long-neglected miracle of existence.” — 28 likes
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Born | 21 June 1948 (age 71) Aldershot, England |
Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
Nationality | British |
Education | University of Sussex University of East Anglia |
Period | 1975–present |
Spouse | Penny Allen (1982–1995) Annalena McAfee (1997–present) |
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Ian Russell McEwanCBEFRSAFRSL (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of 'The 50 greatest British writers since 1945' and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the '100 most powerful people in British culture'.[1]
McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), his first two novels, earned him the nickname 'Ian Macabre'. These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s. His novel Enduring Love (1997) was adapted into an eponymous film. He won the Man Booker Prize with Amsterdam (1998). His following novel, Atonement (2001), garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. This was followed by Saturday (2005), On Chesil Beach (2007), Solar (2010), Sweet Tooth (2012), The Children Act (2014), Nutshell (2016), and Machines Like Me (2019). He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011.
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Early life[edit]
McEwan was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, on 21 June 1948, the son of David McEwan and Rose Lilian Violet (née Moore).[2] His father was a working-class Scotsman who had worked his way up through the army to the rank of major.[3]
McEwan spent much of his childhood in east Asia (including Singapore), Germany, and north Africa (including Libya), where his father was posted. His family returned to England when he was 12. He was educated at Woolverstone Hall School in Suffolk; the University of Sussex, where he received a degree in English literature in 1970; and the University of East Anglia, where he undertook a master's degree in literature (with the option to submit creative writing instead of a critical dissertation).[4]
Career[edit]
Early career: short stories and 'Ian Macabre' phase, 1975–1987[edit]
McEwan's first published work was a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. He achieved notoriety in 1979 when the BBC suspended production of his play Solid Geometry because of its supposed obscenity.[5] His second collection of short stories, In Between the Sheets, was published in 1978. The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981), his two earliest novels, were both adapted into films. The nature of these works caused him to be nicknamed 'Ian Macabre'.[6] These were followed by his first book for children, Rose Blanche (1985), and a return to literary fiction for The Child in Time (1987), winner of the 1987 Whitbread Novel Award.
Mid-career: mainstream success and Booker Prize win, 1988–2007[edit]
Following The Child in Time, McEwan began to move away from the darker, more unsettling material of his earlier career towards the style that would see him reach a wider readership and gain significant critical acclaim. This new phase began with the publication of the mid-Cold War set espionage drama The Innocent (1990) and Black Dogs (1992), a quasi-companion piece reflecting on the aftermath of the Nazi era in Europe and the end of the Cold War. https://newpages153.weebly.com/free-house-party-download-mac.html. McEwan followed these works with his second book for children, The Daydreamer (1994).
His 1997 novel, Enduring Love, about the relationship between a science writer and a stalker, was popular with critics, although it was not shortlisted for the Booker Prize.[7][8] It was adapted into a film in 2004. In 1998, he won the Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam.[9] His next novel, Atonement (2001), received considerable acclaim; Time magazine named it the best novel of 2002, and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.[10] In 2007, the critically acclaimed movie Atonement, directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, was released in cinemas worldwide. His next work, Saturday (2005), follows an especially eventful day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon. Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 2005, and his novel On Chesil Beach (2007) was shortlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize. McEwan has also written a number of produced screenplays, a stage play, children's fiction, an oratorio and a libretto titled For You with music composed by Michael Berkeley.
In 2006, McEwan was accused of plagiarism; specifically that a passage in Atonement (2001) closely echoed a passage from a memoir, No Time for Romance, published in 1977 by Lucilla Andrews. McEwan acknowledged using the book as a source for his work.[11][12] McEwan had included a brief note at the end of Atonement, referring to Andrews's autobiography, among several other works. The incident recalled critical controversy over his debut novel The Cement Garden, key elements of the plot of which closely mirrored some of those of Our Mother's House, a 1963 novel by British author Julian Gloag, which had also been made into a film. Free christmas music mp3 files. McEwan denied charges of plagiarism, claiming he was unaware of the earlier work.[13] Writing in The Guardian in November 2006, a month after Andrews' death, McEwan professed innocence of plagiarism while acknowledging his debt to the author of No Time for Romance.[14][15][16] Several authors defended him, including John Updike, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Keneally, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and Thomas Pynchon.[17][18]
Later career: political works and continued success, 2008–present[edit]
McEwan's first novel of the 2010s, Solar, was published by Jonathan Cape and Doubleday in March 2010.[19] In June 2008 at the Hay Festival, McEwan gave a surprise reading of this work-in-progress. The novel includes 'a scientist who hopes to save the planet'[20] from the threat of climate change, with inspiration for the novel coming from a Cape Farewell expedition McEwan made in 2005 in which 'artists and scientists.spent several weeks aboard a ship near the north pole discussing environmental concerns'. McEwan noted 'The novel's protagonist Michael Beard has been awarded a Nobel prize for his pioneering work on physics, and has discovered that winning the coveted prize has interfered with his work'.[20] He said that the work was not a comedy: 'I hate comic novels; it's like being wrestled to the ground and being tickled, being forced to laugh',[20] instead, that it had extended comic stretches.
Solar was followed by McEwan's twelfth novel, Sweet Tooth, a meta-fictionalhistorical novel set in the 1970s,[21] and was published in late August 2012.[22] In an interview with The Scotsman newspaper to coincide with publication, McEwan revealed that the impetus for writing Sweet Tooth had been '[.] a way in which I can write a disguised autobiography'.[23] He revealed in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, in November 2012, that the film rights to Sweet Tooth had been bought by Working Title Films—the company that had brought Atonement to the screen.[24]Sweet Tooth was followed two years later by The Children Act, which concerned High Court judges, UK family law, and the right to die.[25] The release of The Children Act was marred by a public controversy when McEwan's estranged ex-wife made an unexpected appearance at a public publicity event that McEwan was participating in to promote his novel; she heckled McEwan, and demanded, 'When are you going to lift the injunction you have on me and my partner?'.[26] Although McEwan recognized his ex-wife's presence, he did not directly respond, and she was escorted from the premises.
Two years after The Children Act, McEwan's 2016 novel Nutshell, a short novel closer in style and tone to his earlier works, was published. McEwan's next work, a short novella, was titled My Purple Scented Novel – part of which was previously published as a short story under the same title in The New Yorker in 2016 –.[27] This short work was published to mark McEwan's 70th birthday in June 2018.[28]
McEwan followed Nutshell in April 2019 with the alternate history/science fiction novel Machines Like Me. Machines Like Me concerns artificial intelligence and an alternate history in which Great Britain loses the Falklands War and the Labour Party, led by Tony Benn, eventually wins the 1987 General Election. In September 2019, McEwan announced a quick surprise follow-up novella, The Cockroach.[29]
Awards and honours[edit]
McEwan has been nominated for the Man Booker prize six times to date, winning the Prize for Amsterdam in 1998. His other nominations were for The Comfort of Strangers (1981, shortlisted), Black Dogs (1992, shortlisted), Atonement (2001, shortlisted), Saturday (2005, longlisted), and On Chesil Beach (2007, shortlisted). McEwan also received nominations for the Man Booker International Prize in 2005 and 2007.[30]
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, in 1999. Photoshop won t download on mac. He is also a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK. He was awarded a CBE in 2000.[31] In 2005, he was the first recipient of Dickinson College's Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholar and Writers Program Award,[32] in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 2008, McEwan was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by University College London, where he had previously taught English literature.
In 2006, the Board of Trustees of the Kenyon Review honored McEwan with the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, writing that 'McEwan's stories, novels, and plays are notable for their fierce artistic dramas, exploring unanticipated and often brutal collisions between the ordinary and the extraordinary.'[33]
In 2008, The Times named McEwan among their list of 'The 50 greatest British writers since 1945'.[34]
In 2010, McEwan received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. The Helmerich Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.
On 20 February 2011, he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society.[35] He accepted the prize, despite controversy[36] and pressure from groups and individuals opposed to the Israeli government.[37][38] McEwan responded to his critics, and specifically the group British Writers in Support of Palestine (BWISP), in a letter to The Guardian, stating in part, 'There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics, and for me the emblem in this respect is Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – surely a beam of hope in a dark landscape, though denigrated by the Israeli religious right and Hamas. If BWISP is against this particular project, then clearly we have nothing more to say to each other.'[39] McEwan's acceptance speech discussed the complaints against him and provided further insight into his reasons for accepting the award.[40] He also said he will donate the amount of the prize, 'ten thousand dollars to Combatants for Peace, an organisation that brings together Israeli ex-soldiers and Palestinian ex-fighters.'[40]
In 2012, the University of Sussex presented McEwan with its 50th Anniversary Gold Medal in recognition of his contributions to literature.[41]
In 2014, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas paid $2 million for McEwan's literary archives. Spotify keeps logging me out mac. The archives includes drafts of all of his later novels. McEwan commented that his novel Atonement started out as a science fiction story set 'two or three centuries in the future.'[42]
Views on religion and politics[edit]
In 2008, McEwan publicly spoke out against Islamism for its views on women and on homosexuality. He was quoted as saying that fundamentalist Islam wanted to create a society that he 'abhorred'. His comments appeared in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, to defend fellow writer Martin Amis against allegations of racism. McEwan, an atheist,[43] said that certain streams of Christianity were 'equally absurd' and that he didn't 'like these medieval visions of the world according to which God is coming to save the faithful and to damn the others.'[44]
McEwan put forward the following statement on his official site and blog after claiming he was misinterpreted: https://biteyellow857.weebly.com/blog/cisco-anywhere-connect-download-mac.
- Certain remarks of mine to an Italian journalist have been widely misrepresented in the UK press, and on various websites. Contrary to reports, my remarks were not about Islam, but about Islamism – perhaps 'extremism' would be a better term. I grew up in a Muslim country – Libya – and have only warm memories of a dignified, tolerant and hospitable Islamic culture. I was referring in my interview to a tiny minority who preach violent jihad, who incite hatred and violence against 'infidels', apostates, Jews and homosexuals; who in their speeches and on their websites speak passionately against free thought, pluralism, democracy, unveiled women; who will tolerate no other interpretation of Islam but their own and have vilifiedSufism and other strands of Islam as apostasy; who have murdered, among others, fellow Muslims by the thousands in the market places of Iraq, Algeria and in the Sudan. Countless Islamic writers, journalists and religious authorities have expressed their disgust at this extremist violence. To speak against such things is hardly 'astonishing' on my part (Independent on Sunday) or original, nor is it 'Islamophobic' and 'right wing' as one official of the Muslim Council of Britain insists, and nor is it to endorse the failures and brutalities of US foreign policy. It is merely to invoke a common humanity which I hope would be shared by all religions as well as all non-believers.'[45]
In 2007, Christopher Hitchens dedicated his book God Is Not Great to McEwan.
In 2008, McEwan was among more than 200,000 signatories of a petition to support Italian journalist Roberto Saviano who received multiple death threats and was placed in police protection after exposing the Mafia-like crime syndicate, Camorra, in his 2006 book Gomorrah. McEwan said he hoped the petition would help 'galvanize' the Italian police into taking seriously the 'fundamental matter of civil rights and free speech'.[46]
McEwan also signed a petition to support the release of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of committing adultery.[47]
On winning the Jerusalem Prize, McEwan defended himself against criticism for accepting the prize in light of opposition to Israeli policies, saying: 'If you didn't go to countries whose foreign policy or domestic policy is screwed up, you'd never get out of bed'.[48][49] On accepting the honour he spoke in favour of Israel's existence, security, and freedoms,[50] while strongly attacking Hamas, Israel's policies in Gaza, and the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories[51]—notable words, for the audience included political leaders such as the Israeli President Shimon Peres and Nir Barkat, the Mayor of Jerusalem. McEwan also personally attended a protest in Sheikh Jarrah against the expansion of Israeli settlements.[52]
In 2013, McEwan sharply criticised Stephen Hawking for boycotting a conference in Israel as well as the boycott campaign in general, stating that there are many countries 'whose governments we might loathe or disapprove of' but 'Israel–Palestine has become sort of tribal and a touchstone for a certain portion of the intellectual classes. Abit motherboard drivers. I say this in the context of thinking it is profoundly wrong of the Israeli government not to be pursuing more actively and positively and creatively a solution with the Palestinians. That's why I think one wants to go to these places to make the point. Turning away will not produce any result.'[53]
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In 2009, McEwan joined the 10:10 project, a movement that supports positive action on climate change by encouraging people to reduce their carbon emissions.[54]
In 2013, as part of a wide-ranging interview with Channel 4 News, McEwan reflected upon the furore that surrounded his remarks on Islamism in 2008, stating 'I remember getting a lot of stick five or six years ago saying something disobliging about jihadists. There were voices, particularly on the left, that thought anyone who criticised Islamism was really criticising Islam and therefore racist. Well, those voices have gone quiet because the local atrocities committed by Islamists whether in Pakistan or Mali is so self-evidently vile.'[55] In the same interview, McEwan remarked that he felt that protestors of the 2003 Iraq War were 'vindicated' by what happened subsequently; argued that the chief legacy of the Iraq War was that '[.] sometimes there are things we could do [before that war] which we no longer can' in foreign affairs; stated that at one point prior to the 2003 invasion he had hoped to be able to seek an audience with Tony Blair to persuade him not to go ahead with the war; and as someone who voted for the Liberal Democrats in the 2010 UK general election, that the current coalition government of the United Kingdom should end, stating 'Let's either have a Tory government or let Ed Miliband try something different', to try and turn around a country of 'great inequity'. McEwan is traditionally a Labour supporter and said he had his 'fingers crossed' that Miliband would become Prime Minister.[55]
Following the referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union resulting in a win for the Leave or 'Brexit' campaign in June 2016, McEwan wrote a critical opinion article for The Guardian newspaper titled 'Britain is changed utterly. Unless this summer is just a bad dream', published on 9 July 2016.[56] In the article, McEwan attempted to make sense of the aftermath and consequences of the 'Brexit' vote, noting: 'Everything is changed utterly. Or about to be, as soon as your new leader is chosen. The country you live in, the parliamentary democracy that ruled it, for good or bad, has been trumped by a plebiscite of dubious purpose and unacknowledged status. From our agriculture to our science and our universities, from our law to our international relations to our commerce and trade and politics, and who and what we are in the world – all is up for a curious, unequal renegotiation with our European neighbours.'[56] McEwan's piece appeared to conclude with a sense of bewilderment and unease at how events were panning out, anticipating the ascension of Theresa May to the leadership of the Conservative Party and her appointment as Prime Minister, and noting how the previously unthinkable in British politics had actually happened.[56] Vso convertxtodvd 5 serial key. (McEwan's article was published on 9 July, and May effectively won the Conservative Party leadership contest on 11 July, which precipitated her appointment as Prime Minister two days later). In May 2017, speaking at a London conference on Brexit, apparently referring to what he believed to be the older demographic of leave voters, McEwan stated that 'one and a half million oldsters freshly in their graves' would result in a putative second referendum returning a 'remain' outcome.[57]
Personal life[edit]
McEwan has been married twice, first to Penny Allen, then later to Annalena McAfee, who was formerly the editor of The Guardian's Review section.
He met the English undergraduate Allen in the 1970s, while both were at the University of East Anglia; she was divorced and had two daughters.[58][59] According to a Daily Mail interview with Allen in September 2014, she was married when she first met McEwan, and their relationship began after her divorce.[60] They married in 1982: 'My first wife was very New Age. I tried to accommodate it', McEwan said in 2009.[58]
The couple divorced in 1995. Allen ended the marriage because she was frustrated by McEwan's 'glitterati' associations, and the dissolution of the marriage was followed by a custody dispute over their two teenage sons.[60][61] Allen absconded to France in 1999 with them (accompanied by her new partner) after McEwan had gained sole custody, although the elder boy soon returned to his father to visit Botswana with him.[62] Following a Brittany court ruling that their other son should be returned to his father, McEwan gained an injunction at the High Court in London against his former wife in September of that year, preventing her from speaking about the case.[63]
During the hearing, the judge, Mr Justice Charles, ordered the ruling of Paul Clark, the judge at the custody hearing at Oxford County Court, to be read out. The judge at the Oxford hearing had referred to Allen's 'vitriolic campaign' against her ex-husband, and also commented: 'When thwarted by him [McEwan] or others she has not hesitated to make trouble - witness her 'press releases' in various articles in the press earlier this year [1999].'[64][65]
In October 2014, when he was giving a talk at the Cheltenham Literature Festival to publicise his new novel, The Children Act, Ms Allen was reported as asking in the question-and-answer session, 'When are you going to lift the injunction you have on me and my partner?' She was escorted out of the event by the stewards.[66]
Guitar pro 6 for mac free full download. Best call tracking software. In 2002, McEwan discovered that he had a brother who had been given up for adoption during the Second World War; the story became public in 2007.[67] The brother, a bricklayer named David Sharp, was born six years earlier than McEwan, when their mother was married to a different man. Sharp has the same parents as McEwan but was born from an affair between them that occurred before their parents' marriage. After her first husband was killed in combat, McEwan's mother married her lover, and Ian was born a few years later.[68] The brothers are in regular contact, and McEwan has written a foreword to Sharp's memoir.
McEwan was a long-time friend of Christopher Hitchens, the writer and polemicist.[21]
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References[edit]
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- ^Jaillant, Lise. 'Myth Maker: Malcolm Bradbury and the Creation of Creative Writing at UEA.' New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (2016)
- ^Ian McEwan: Writers and Their Work by Kiernan Ryan publ 1994
- ^Walsh, John (27 January 2007). 'Ian McEwan: Here's the twist'. The Independent. London. Retrieved 22 March 2007.
- ^Knorr, Katherine (9 October 1997). 'Enduring Love'. International Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 30 March 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2007.
- ^'Ian McEwan's Family Values'. Boston Review. Archived from the original on 2 October 2006. Retrieved 21 March 2007.
- ^'Prize archive: 1998'. Man Booker Prize. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
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- ^Cowell, Alan (28 November 2006). 'Eyebrows Are Raised Over Passages in a Best Seller by Ian McEwan'. The New York Times.
- ^Julia Langdon (25 November 2006). 'Ian McEwan accused of stealing ideas from romance novelist'. Daily Mail. London. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
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- ^'Solar'. Ian Mcewan's Website. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
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- ^ abFarndale, Nigel (7 March 2011). 'Ian McEwan interview'. The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^'Sweet Tooth'Archived 3 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine, at IanMcEwan.com.
- ^Interview in The Scotsman
- ^Chai, Barbara (27 October 2012). 'Working Title Secures Film Rights to Ian McEwan's New Novel, 'Sweet Tooth''. The Wall Street Journal.
- ^Stock, Jon (3 May 2013). 'Ian McEwan: John le Carré deserves Booker'. The Telegraph.
- ^'Ian McEwan 'heckled by ex-wife' at book promotion'. Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^McEwan, Ian (21 March 2016). ''My Purple Scented Novel''. Retrieved 28 March 2018 – via www.newyorker.com.
- ^'My Purple Scented Novel by Ian McEwan'. www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
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- ^Hosking, Patrick; Wighton, David (5 January 2008). 'The 50 greatest British writers since 1945'. The Times. London. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^'the jerusalem prize'. Jerusalem Book Fair. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^'McEwan defends decision to accept Jerusalem Prize.'Jewish Journal. 26 January 2011. 26 January 2011.
- ^Bates, Stephen (19 January 2011). 'Ian McEwan says he will accept Jerusalem prize'. The Guardian. London.
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- ^'Sussex awards gold medals to its world-leading alumni and past academics', University of Sussex, News, 13 July 2012.
- ^'Ransom Center Pays $2 Million for Ian McEwan Papers', The New York Times, 16 May 2014.
- ^Solomon, Deborah (2 December 2007). 'A Sinner's Tale'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
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- ^Ian McEwan (26 June 2008). 'McEwan Addresses Recent Statement on Islamism'. ian-mcewan.blogspot.com. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
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- ^'Iran stoning case woman ordered to name campaigners'. The Guardian. London. 22 July 2010.
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- ^Booth and Harriet Sherwood, 'Noam Chomsky helped lobby Stephen Hawking to stage Israel boycott', The Guardian, 10 May 2013.
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Further reading[edit]
- Byrnes, Christina (1995), Sex and Sexuality in Ian McEwan's Work, Nottingham, England: Pauper's Press. ISBN0-946650-56-X
- Byrnes, Christina (2002), The Work of Ian McEwan: A Psychodynamic Approach, Nottingham, England: Paupers' Press. ISBN0-946650-75-6
- Byrnes, Bernie C. (2006), Ian McEwan's 'Atonement' and 'Saturday', Nottingham, England: Paupers' Press. ISBN0-946650-90-X
- Byrnes, Bernie C. (2008), McEwan's Only Childhood, Nottingham: Paupers' Press. ISBN0-946650-94-2
- Byrnes, Bernie C. (2009), Ian McEwan's 'On Chesil Beach': the transmutation of a secret, Nottingham: Paupers' Press. ISBN9780946650972
- Childs, Peter (2005), The Fiction of Ian McEwan (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism), Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN1-4039-1909-7
- D'Eliva, Gaetano, and Christopher Williams, (1986), La Nuova Letteratura Inglese Ian McEwan, Schena Editore.
- Dodou, Katherina (2009), Childhood Without Children: Ian McEwan and the Critical Study of the Child, Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University. ISBN978-91-506-2112-9
- Groes, Sebastian (2009), Ian McEwan, Continuum. ISBN978-0-8264-9722-2
- Head, Dominic, (2007), Ian McEwan, Manchester University Press. ISBN978-0-7190-6657-3
- Hoare, Liam (14 November 2012). 'Ian McEwan, novelist-historian'. Salon. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
- Malcolm, David (2002), Understanding Ian McEwan, University of South Carolina. ISBN1-57003-436-2
- Möller, Swantje (2011), Coming to Terms with Crisis: Disorientation and Reorientation in the Novels of Ian McEwan, Winter. ISBN978-3-8253-5880-8
- Pedot, Richard (1999), Perversions Textuelles dans la Fiction d'Ian McEwan, Editions l'Harmattan.
- Reynolds, Margaret, and Jonathan Noakes, (2002), Ian McEwan: The Essential Guide, Vintage. ISBN0-09-943755-4
- Roberts, Ryan (2010), Conversations with Ian McEwan, University Press of Mississippi. ISBN978-1-60473-420-1
- Rooney, Anne (2006), Atonement, York Notes. ISBN1-4058-3561-3
- Rooney, Anne (2010), Pissing in the Wind?, The New Humanist, May 2010
- Ryan, Kiernan (1994), Ian McEwan (Writers and Their Work), Northcote House. ISBN0-7463-0742-X
- Slay Jr., Jack (1996), Ian McEwan (Twayne's English Authors Series), Twayne Publishers. ISBN0-8057-4578-5
- Williams, Christopher (1993) Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden and the Tradition of the Child/Adolescent as 'I-Narrator Biblioteca della Ricerca, Schena Editore.
- Wells, Lynn, (2010) Ian McEwan, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN1-4039-4274-9
- Zalewski, Daniel (23 February 2009). 'The Background Hum: Ian McEwan's art of unease'. The New Yorker. ISSN0028-792X. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
Interviews[edit]
- Unedited interview with Professor Richard Dawkins on YouTube
- Ian McEwan interview with Charlie Rose, 1 June 2007. (Video, 26 mins)
- Ian McEwan: On how to make love work in fiction. Filmed at Louisiana Literature festival 2013. Video interview by Louisiana Channel.
- Bookworm Interviews (Audio) with Michael Silverblatt: May 1999, July 2002, May 2005, May 2010
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