Description for Nutshell
hardcover. Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 404. Good clean copy showing light age and wear, with light nicks and tears to dust jacket
**The Number One Sunday Times bestseller** A Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Irish Times / Spectator / Sunday Times / The Times Book of the Year Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a ... Read more
**The Number One Sunday Times bestseller** A Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Irish Times / Spectator / Sunday Times / The Times Book of the Year Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Jonathan Cape London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911214335
SKU
KMO0000452
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ian McEwan
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 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Nutshell
An astonishing act of literary ventriloquism unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master... Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a shocking tale of murder and treachery from one of the world's master storytellers.
Daily Telegraph
A creative gamble that pays off brilliantly...Witty ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
A creative gamble that pays off brilliantly...Witty ... Read more