The Child In Time (E-Book, EPUB)
eBook - Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award 1987
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ISBN/EAN: 9781409090212
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 256 S., 0.46 MB
Erschienen am
11.03.2010
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict CumberbatchOnly Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of childrens books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephens life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephens own childhood back into the present.
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories,First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels includeThe 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; andNutshell, which was a Number One bestseller.AtonementandEnduring Lovehave both been turned into award-winning films,The Children ActandOn Chesil Beachare in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation ofThe Child in Time.
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