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Ian McEwan was born on 21 June 1948 in Aldershot, England. He studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. He received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He was awarded a CBE in 2000. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards where McEwan was also named Reader's Digest Author of the Year. McEwan lives in London. His most recent novel is Solar.
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Solar is an engrossing and satirical novel which focuses on climate change and will be published on 18 March 2010. This story of one mans ambitions and self-deceptions is a stylish new work by one of the words greatest living writers.
Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. An inveterate philanderer, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. When Beards professional and personal worlds are entwined in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself, a chance for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster. Dan Franklin, Publisher, comments: Solar is a novel about one of the most serious threats to our world global warming but is also very, very funny. It shows a fresh side to Ian McEwans work, that hes a comic writer of genius. Reviews will be posted to the Ian McEwan Website's Solar webpage. Visit your local independent bookshop to order Ian McEwan's books, or purchase them online via Waterstone's, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Nan A. Talese, Powell's, Jonathan Cape, Vintage, Random House Canada, Random House Australia, localbookshops.co.uk, or from a variety of Independent Booksellers.
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Ian McEwan's work is paradigmatic for
the intricate relationship between art and politics in British fiction.
Whereas his early work is more concerned with the family and its perversions,
there is a definite politicization after The Comfort of Strangers (1981).
The years between McEwan's Venetian novel and The Child in Time (1987)
was a period of gestation: he wrote the libretto Or Shall We Die? (1983)
and the script for The Ploughman's Lunch (1985) taking up nuclear disarmament
and Thatcherism. McEwan saw these works as A Move Abroad (1989) and
returned to the novel with the caustically political The Child in Time.
All his later novels have strong political
undertones most drastically visualized in The Innocent (1990): Otto's
mutilated corpse as an image of Berlin. In Saturday (2005), the mass
rally against the Iraq War in 2003 is the background against which the
Perowne's Bloomsday takes place. Similarly, in Black Dogs (1992) or
Amsterdam (1998) politics are shown in their complex relationship to
art which is also celebrated in The Atonement (2001). Order a copy online via the publisher
Universitätsverlag
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This books provides students with an
introduction to the work of Ian McEwan that places his fiction in historical
and theoretical context. It explores his biography and his hallmark
literary techniques, and it looks at the issues of ethics and representation,
focusing particularly on his most recent fiction. Including a timeline
of key dates and an interview with the author, this guide offers an
accessible reading of McEwan's work and an overview of the varied critical
reception this has provoked.
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Novels: The Cement Garden The Comfort of Strangers The Child in Time The Innocent Black Dogs |
Enduring Love Amsterdam Atonement Saturday On Chesil Beach Solar |
Stories: First Love, Last Rites In Between the Sheets |
Children's Fiction: Rose Blanche The Daydreamer |
Screenplays: The Imitation Game & Other Plays The Ploughman's Lunch Soursweet |
Oratorio / Libretto: Or Shall We Die? For You |
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