The Cement Garden
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The Cement Garden

Paperback – September 6, 1988

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Price
$7.34
Format
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0140112825
Dimensions
5.04 x 0.43 x 7.76 inches
Weight
8 ounces

Description

About the Author Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs , both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Amsterdam , winner of the Booker Prize, and The Child in Time , winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites , winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets . He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children’s book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.

Features & Highlights

  • In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.

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Puzzled

I am an enormous fan of Ian McEwan, so I am puzzled that an author of his stature and with his abililty to captivate his readers could have written this book. The subject matter is disturbing on so many levels. I read as much as I could without finding anything redeeming in content or characterization. Could this be the same author who wrote On Chesil Beach and Atonement?

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