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The most up-to-date survey of the leading British novelist of his generation, offering the fullest account to date of McEwan's sources, especially concerning his interest in popular science.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Shock-Lit: The Short Stories and The Cement Garden
3. Dreams of captivity: The Comfort of Strangers
4. Towards the ‘Implicate Order’: The Child in Time
5. Unravelling the binaries: The Innocent and Black Dogs
6. ‘A Mess of Our Own Unmaking’: Enduring Love
7. Amsterdam: McEwan’s ‘Spoiler’
8. ‘The Wild and Inward Journey of Writing’: Atonement
9. ‘Accidents of Character and Circumstance’: Saturday
10. Conclusion: McEwan and the ‘Third Culture’

Ian McEwan Contemporary British Novelists

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 4/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719066573, 978-0719066573
      ISBN10: 0719066573

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The most up-to-date survey of the leading British novelist of his generation, offering the fullest account to date of McEwan's sources, especially concerning his interest in popular science.

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction
      2. Shock-Lit: The Short Stories and The Cement Garden
      3. Dreams of captivity: The Comfort of Strangers
      4. Towards the ‘Implicate Order’: The Child in Time
      5. Unravelling the binaries: The Innocent and Black Dogs
      6. ‘A Mess of Our Own Unmaking’: Enduring Love
      7. Amsterdam: McEwan’s ‘Spoiler’
      8. ‘The Wild and Inward Journey of Writing’: Atonement
      9. ‘Accidents of Character and Circumstance’: Saturday
      10. Conclusion: McEwan and the ‘Third Culture’

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