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The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan
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Description for The Cement Garden
paperback. In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099755111
SKU
V9780099755111
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen 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.
Reviews for The Cement Garden
A macabre but unforgettable tale
Guardian
One of his very best… Deliciously disturbing.
Big Issue in the North
A macabre but unforgettable tale
Guardian
One of his very best… Deliciously disturbing.
Big Issue in the North
An unforgettable tale
Guardian
Hypnotic
New Yorker
An extremely assured, technically adept and compelling piece of work
Observer
Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow
Sunday Times
A shocking book...irresistibly readable
New York Review of Books
Darkly impressive
The Times
Guardian
One of his very best… Deliciously disturbing.
Big Issue in the North
A macabre but unforgettable tale
Guardian
One of his very best… Deliciously disturbing.
Big Issue in the North
An unforgettable tale
Guardian
Hypnotic
New Yorker
An extremely assured, technically adept and compelling piece of work
Observer
Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow
Sunday Times
A shocking book...irresistibly readable
New York Review of Books
Darkly impressive
The Times