Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£7.99
Author:
Ian McEwan
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099755111
£7.99
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EAN: 9780099755111
Published: 7 Dec 2006
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...
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Darkly impressive
- The Times
Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable
- Sunday Times
An extremely assured, technically adept and compelling piece of work
- Observer
A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable...The effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism - a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels
- New York Review of Books
It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable
- Sunday Times
Ian McEwan is the author of two collections of stories and twelve previous novels, including Enduring Love, Amsterdam, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1998, Atonement and, most recently, Solar.
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