Black Dogs

Zusatztext A reversion from Picador. Informationen zum Autor Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen 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. Klappentext Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an idyllic holiday, but in France they witness an event that alters the course of their lives entirely. Forty years on, their son-in-law is trying to uncover the cause of their estrangement and is led back to this moment on honeymoon and an experience of such darkness it was to wrench the couple apart. 'Powerful... Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph 'Thoughtful and compassionate' London Review of Books Zusammenfassung Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon.

Product details

• Authors: Ian McEwan
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.09.1998
• EAN: 9780099277088
• ISBN: 978-0-09-927708-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, France, Family life fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)