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Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining * Sunday Times *
A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic * Daily Telegraph *
A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet * Financial Times *
McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny * Mail on Sunday *
Vivacious and sprawling, a beautifully and compellingly written novel * The Times *

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 3 March 2011
      ISBN-13 9780099549024
      978-0099549024
      ISBN-10 0099549026
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      Contemporary Fiction Books by Ian McEwan

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

      Trade Review
      Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining * Sunday Times *
      A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic * Daily Telegraph *
      A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet * Financial Times *
      McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny * Mail on Sunday *
      Vivacious and sprawling, a beautifully and compellingly written novel * The Times *

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