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The Cement Garden

The Cement Garden

by IanMcEwan (Author)

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    Hardcover 1996

    $3.51
Synopsis

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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 144
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 05 Dec 1996
ISBN 10: 0224043978
ISBN 13: 9780224043977

Media Reviews
Darkly impressive. -- The Times A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right. -- Tom Paulin Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable. -- Sunday Times A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable...The effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism -- a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels. -- New York Review of Books His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptu