Ian McEwan: The Essential Guide: "Child in Time", "Enduring Love", "Atonement" (Vintage Living Texts)
Noakes, Jonathan, Reynolds, Margaret
In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Ian McEwan. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Ian McEwan, relating specifically to the texts under discussion.
This guide deals with McEwan's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts is accompanied by likely exam questions - as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.
Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a biography, a bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.
Whether a teacher, student or general reader, the Vintage Living Texts series gives you the chance to explore new resources and enjoy new pleasures.
The Vintage Living Texts series includes: Louis de Bernières, Margaret Atwood and Sebastian Faulks.
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Reviews for Ian McEwan: The Essential Guide: "Child in Time", "Enduring Love", "Atonement" (Vintage Living Texts)
The English Magazine, no.47 Winter 2002/3
[McEwan] is this country's unrivalled literary giant
Independent on Sunday
One of our greatest living writers
Herald
McEwan's brilliance as a novelist lies in his ability to isolate discrete moments in life and invest them with incredible significance
Observer
McEwan is the kind of author who can say more in a sentence than most can say in a chapter
Irish Times