Ian McEwan
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A life in books: Mavis GallantIn the New York Review of Books in 1980 - in which Gallant was reviewed alongside the "arresting new talent" in English fiction, Ian McEwan - VS Pritchett found her "brittle". While Pritchett concluded that, despite her "sharp",... In this article: Mavis Gallant, John Updike, Paris, New York, Bread, New York Review of Books, Montreal, and Eudora Welty |
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National Post | 5 days ago
John Hillcoat's more human apocalypse
...dry settings in his underrated 2005 western The Proposition. And screenwriter Joe Penhall had adapted difficult novels including Ian McEwan's Enduring Love, which was turned into a film with Daniel Craig and Samantha Morton in 2004. The...
In this article: John Hillcoat, Viggo Mortensen, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Suicide, Waste, Global warming, Concussion, and Joe Penhall
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Times Online | 6 days ago
Trafalgar Square's felled trees are a branch of protest art
...This summer, artists including Agnes Denes, planted wheat on derelict wasteland in East London • Booker prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan's next novel is set in the melting Arctic • In 2007, 42 artists from all over the world came together...
In this article: Climate change, Cattle, Deforestation, Global warming, Booker prize, and Carbon dioxide
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 13, 2009
100 books that defined the noughties
...as Katie Price, who didn't even pretend to write their own books. Alan Hollinghurst won the Man Booker Prize for an explicitly gay novel; Ian McEwan rose above his rivals as the country's pre-eminent literary novelist; and a black man became...
In this article: Man Booker Prize, Second World War, Zoe Heller, WG Sebald, Zadie Smith, Nigella Lawson, Iraq, and Islam
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Slate Magazine - Culturebox | November 11, 2009
Slate's Culture Gabfest on Precious, the novel Black Dogs (and the fall of communism), and a Vanity Fair article on the rise of cute.
...other Culturefest listeners have to say about the latest podcast. In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss Precious, Ian McEwan's novel Black Dogs (and the fall of communism), and a recent Vanity Fair article about the rise of...
In this article: Black Dogs, Slate, Itunes, Audible.com, and Communism
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St. Petersburg Times | November 04, 2009
Hernando Historical Museum seeks volunteers
...Discussion Group will meet at 6 p.m. Nov. 16 at Lykes Memorial Library, 238 Howell Ave. The book to be discussed is Atonement by Ian McEwan. This is a novel about of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness. After...
In this article: Spring Hill, Bushnell, and Atonement
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St. Petersburg Times | November 03, 2009
Find a new club in Hernando County
Brooksville Book Discussion Group: 6 p.m. Nov. 16, Lykes Memorial Library, 238 Howell Ave. The book to be discussed is Atonement, by Ian McEwan. No registration is required, but copies of the book are limited. Tina Mraz, (352) 754-4043.
In this article: Hernando County, E-mail, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Kiwanis Club, Spring Hill, and New York State United Teachers
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New York Times | November 03, 2009
Free Online Sperm and Its Perils
Today's idea: The mind is being replaced by the brain in literature, an essay says, in what could be a new literary genre: the neuro-novel. Ian McEwan, Jonathan Lethem and others have protagonists with mental disorders, whose causes are not...
In this article: Mental disorder, Dog, Craigslist, and Jonathan Lethem
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New York Times | October 28, 2009
The Rise of the 'Neuro-Novel'
...we're seeing reflected in fiction the wider triumph of brain chemistry over Freud. The trend begins in 1997, Roth says, with Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love" (featuring de Clerambault's syndrome), and continues with, among others, Jonathan...
In this article: Mental disorder, Jonathan Lethem, Recession, Dog, Personality disorder, Bipolar disorder, and Capgras syndrome
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SignOnSanDiego.com RSS Feeds Business | October 27, 2009
'Da Vinci Code' publisher changes jobs
...John Grisham, Pat Conroy and Brown, whose "The Da Vinci Code" is among the best-selling novels in history. Rubin also worked with Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood and other, more literary authors. Holt has released such popular books as Barbara...
In this article: Random House Inc., John Sargent, The Da Vinci Code, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and Bertelsmann AG
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Independent.co.uk - Books | October 15, 2009
The Diary: Andrew Lloyd Webber; John Walker; Alice Channer; Ian McEwan; Hilary Mantel
...as a glamorous thing associated with the fashion industry. She often uses fabrics in her work as well as cigarettes". Ian McEwan might be best known for his brooding, angsty dramas but he has lately turned his hand to...
In this article: Hilary Mantel, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sarah Brightman, and Phantom
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Description from Wikipedia:
Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL, (born 21 June 1948) is a Booker Prize-winning English novelist and screenwriter.
- Name At Birth:
- Ian Russell McEwan
- Birth Date:
- June 21, 1948
- Birthplace:
- Aldershot, England
- Nationality:
- British
- Spouse:
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- Annalena McAfee (1997-)
- Penny Allen (1982-1995)
- Occupation:
- Author, screenwriter
- Period:
- 1975 - present
- Influenced By:
- Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, John Updike, Franz Kafka, Malcolm Bradbury
- Influenced:
- Sebastian Faulks, Michael Cunningham
- Website:
- http://www.ianmcewan.com
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