Unknown to Joe, something passes between them – something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Joe's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

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Details

ISBN13: 9780099276586
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 256
Edition:
Publication Date: 03 Jul 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.7(H)x12.9(L)x1.9(W)178
Weight (gm): 178

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

"Utterly compelling" Sunday Times "Hypnotically readable" Sunday Telegraph "Taut with narrative excitement and suspense" Sunday Times "A plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that night" -- A. S. Byatt Daily Mail "He is the maestro at creating suspense" New Statesman