The Cement Garden

...first published work was a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981) were his two earliest novels. The nature of...

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...to arrive. She started young as an actress as well, playing the lead in 1988's The Little Thief and an incestuous sibling in 1993's The Cement Garden, directed by her uncle, Andrew Birkin. Her subsequent filmography is sporadic in quantity as...

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...Lethal Weapon and the acclaimed Don Juan de Marco), orchestrating and conducting before scoring his first full-length feature film The Cement Garden which won the director's prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Coming to prominence in his own...

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...Young Jury prize for Best Film at the Brussels Film Festival. In 1993, Birkin wrote and directed The Cement Garden, based on the novel by Ian McEwan, for which he won the Silver Bear as best director at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as...

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...and highly recommend Atonement, Amsterdam and Saturday; and now I can recommend another of his books -- a short novel entitled The Cement Garden. The premise here is that a family of four children is left orphaned, but their...

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The Cement Garden is a 1978 novel by Ian McEwan. It was adapted into a 1993 film of the same name by Andrew Birkin, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson . A quote from the script (as spoken by Gainsbourg in the film) is...

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...novels in one convenient volume. Looking forward to reading more about Rabbit since I really enjoyed the first two books. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan -- one of my favorite living authors. Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf of...

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...with friends. After that, I drifted away, and saved my darker thoughts for my fiction where fathers, especially the one in The Cement Garden, were not kindly presented. Our most serious clash came some years later when I was in my twenties...

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...McEwan. More than one critic has noted that McEwan's novels are simply stiff with children who have either been abandoned (The Cement Garden) or vanished from their parents' grasp (The Child in Time), and hazarded the existence of a...

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This breathtaking novel, Ian McEwan's 11th, tells the story of that night. Like a number of his previous books -- among them The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, Black Dogs and Amsterdam -- On Chesil Beach is more a novella...

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