books by Ian Mcewan     books:       The GOOD SON - (MOVIE-TIE-IN)3 reviews Ian McEwan Pocket, 1993 Todd Strasser's 'GOOD SON' is indeed very good Some movie novelizations are very bad. Others are very good. "THE GOOD SON" falls in with that good category. The book is chilling and very good writing. It gives us a portrait of our young hero, Mark, played by Elijah Wood in the movie from 20th Century Fox, that is not seen in the movie. We can hear his thoughts on the death of his mother. The character of Mark in the movie seems at times ...             Atonement1 review Ian McEwan Recorded Books, 2005 Tour de force (Really!) I often read on back covers that a book is a tour de force, but this is the first time I've really thought it myself! Even if you've seen the movie, which is quite good, the book offers so much more. McEwan delves deeply and honestly into the thoughts of each of his characters creating a a masterful interplay of perspectives. The account of Briony's stream of consciousness transported me back to ...             Atonement2 reviews Ian McEwan Vintage, 2005 A terrible inevitability... Reading Atonement was a wrenching experience. Once begun, I was driven to finish. The growing tension of the story made it impossible for me to stop reading until the advent of a new course of action and I was released me until the next time. In the innocence of childhood, precocious talents are encouraged, applauded. But by the next stage of development, adolescents are often capable of ...             Pan' e Pomodor - My Passage To Puglia5 reviews Ian R. McEwan Lulu Enterprises, UK Ltd, 2007 the good life.. bread and tomatoes Bread and Tomatoes...the good life...A story about two people who were either very ignorant or very brave.. buying a derelict house in Italy and using local labor to restore it, come on..if there ever was a recipe for disaster..This book unfolds a story just like that. Written in an entertaining witty way it will show you a part of Italy we normally do not meet or experience. The book takes you ...             Rose Blanche17 reviews Ian McEwan Red Fox, 2004 Rose Blanche, you are not alone Congratulations! You have successfully located the best translation of the book "Rose Blanche" available on the market today. While the British and German translations may change significant portions of this tale around and about, the American version (all thanks to hard work of excellent translators Martha Coventry and Richard Graglia) is true to authors Gallaz and Innocenti's original plot and ...             Atonement754 reviews Ian McEwan Phoenix Audio, 2006 My favorite book... ever. I first picked this book up about 6 or 7 years ago, read it over the course of 4 nights and immediately read it all over again. I laughed. I cried. I got excited/scared/happy/hopeful/devastated/etc. as the story went. My favorite thing about Atonement is that the story is one I have never read before. It's so refreshing after reading hundreds of books I find that so many follow the same base ...             The Innocent1 review Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape, 1990 CIA Fiction with A Noir Twist Ian McEwan's novels typically begin in an unsuspecting straightforward manner and gradually torpedo us to the very darkest nooks and crannies with which he is obsessed. "The Innocent" is no exception. It starts with a first-person narrative by a young British intelligence officer posted to the infamous American-Berlin sector headquarters of the Allied Forces just after World War II, where a ...             Atonement6 reviews Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape, 2001 Brilliant descriptive writing by a master novelist This novel is an astonishing achievement from one of Britain's leading modern day novelists. It contains three very individual pieces of descriptive writing. The first is about family tensions in an upper-middle class English family in 1935 - in particular the tensions between two sisters and with a handsome young man who is suitor to the elder. There is an undercurrent if not of menace certainly ...             Black Dogs32 reviews Ian Mcewan Random House UK, 1992 Two black dogs in Post WW2 Europe impact the future of a young couple I love Ian McEwan's writing. His words are pure art on the page. In this 1992 novel, the promise of his future success as a novelist is very clear. This is a small book, a mere 160 pages, and yet he captures the very essence of the post-WW2 world in Europe. Told in the first person, though the eyes of a British writer with a wife and four children, this is the story of his mother and ...             On Chesil Beach202 reviews Ian Mcewan Anchor, 2008 Sublime...my choice for the Booker last year Ian McEwan is the only contemporary fiction writer today with the talent and the craft to transform what in lesser hands might pass for a rather slight novella into a tremulous, gorgeously detailed work of art. "On Chesil Beach" may be less ambitious in its scope than McEwan's earlier masterpieces such as "Atonement" but it is no less satisfying for the effect it strives to achieve. McEwan isn't ...             The Innocent31 reviews Ian McEwan Picador, 1991 A startling and fascinating tale The term "breath-taking" is one that book reviewers toss about with more ease than readers believe. but McEwan's post-war/thriller/romance can leave you breathless as it slips cannily from the everyday to the astonishing. People who could not imagine being caught up in webs of intrigue and deception find their lives turned topsy-turvy in most imaginative and startling ways. The more I read of the ...             Enduring Love170 reviews Ian McEwan HarperCollins Audio, 1998 A Terse Literary Masterpiece on Obsessive Love from Ian McEwan Ian McEwan's slender novel, "Enduring Love", moves along at such an episodic fast clip that it might remind readers more of an Ian Fleming James Bond tale, than as a sophisticated literary confection from one of Great Britain's - and truly the English language's - foremost writers of fiction. McEwan opens quite literally with an explosive opening of such emotional and descriptive power, and one ...             The Child in Time27 reviews Ian McEwan audible.com A wonderful mix of passion, introspection, and contemporary commentary McEwan manages to take the theme of a kidnapped child and turn it into a story of courage, love, and hope, without dredging it in sentimentality and triteness. Not as immersed in irony as is ON CHESIL BEACH, it nevertheless manages to leave a lasting impression both as a story and a well-written novel.             The Cement Garden66 reviews Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape, 1996 Disturbing tale of working-class Britain... Ian McEwan is one of my favorite writers. He seems to focus either on the very educated, upper-crust of British society or the tough lower classes. This is definitely a story of the latter. The story, in a nutshell, is: The parents of a working class family die, leaving the children to fend for themselves. This is no Party of Five, however. They keep the death of their mother a secret so ...             The Comfort of Strangers54 reviews Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape, 1996 The Comfort of Strangers Well written, perfectly crafted, scary as hell. Good movie version too with Julie Christi and Donald Sutherland. I'm a big Ian McEwan fan.             First Love, Last Rites11 reviews Ian McEwan Vintage, 1997 Early McEwan, promising but patchy "First Love, Last Rites (FLLR)" is Ian McEwan's first short story collection and while I love virtually every novel he has written so far - "Enduring Love", "Black Dogs" and "Atonement" are truly modern classics - FLLR is very early McEwan, showing promise but lacking the assured confidence of his later works. In this Somerset Maugham Award winning book, McEwan displays all the qualities that ...             Atonement1 review Ian McEwan Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2002 Reminiscent of Henry James, but with metafiction Ian McEwan's Atonement has the feel of classical literature: an elegant and slightly formal style, generous details, and a straightforward plot. Briony Tallis, a spoiled British 13 year old, spies her older sister Cecilia and the caretaker's son Robbie as they wrestle with an antique vase next to a fountain. Although Briony imagines herself as mature, she does not yet have an adult understanding ...             Saturday292 reviews Ian McEwan Anchor, 2006 Fantastic! This book is sooo good on many levels. The author did research for this character, the descriptions of neurosurgey were particularly fascinating for me, but also the interior thoughtlife of the doctor contemplating his life and the events of the times (the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003). This is a novel I want to make several friends read. It is very well-written and thought-provoking.             Amsterdam~Ian Mcewan6 reviews Ian Mcewan Vintage Canada, 1999 Perfect Tragedy for Today Without being quite postmodern, this is a perfect, neat novel for the postmodern age. It's about the deterioration of perception, about aging and death. Any lack of author's fleshing out a character is definitely intentional, as the reader finds himself seeing what the main characters cannot, picking up clues lost on the protagonists, and remembering what others cannot. There's not ...             In Between Sheets1 review Ian mcewan Simon & Schuster, 1979 Two Mediocre, Three Bizarre, and Two Beautiful Stories If I had only read "Two Fragments: March 199-" and "To and Fro" from this early collection of short stories when they were published in 1978 by one of my favorite writers, I would have read no more and would have missed out on his later wonderful novels. These two stories should be forgotten. Mr. McEwan turns up the heat in three of his stories, which I would label the bizarre. "Pornography" is ...              search for books amsterdam, atonement, beach, between, black, blanche, cement, chesil, child, comfort, dogs, enduring, first, garden, good, innocent, last, love, mcewan, movie, movie-tie-in, passage, pomodor, puglia, rites, rose, saturday, sheets, strangers, time books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen outdoor living: 5 O'Clock Somewhere leave a comment home  impressum - about us