The Child in Time - Softcover

McEwan, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140112464 ISBN 13: 9780140112467

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

Synopsis

This beautifully haunting book by Booker winner Ian McEwan won a 1987 Whitbread Prize

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.

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Review:

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself: "It was a wonder there could be so much movement, so much purpose, all the time. He himself had none." This beautifully haunting book won a 1987 Whitbread Prize.

Review:

"A death-defying story, inventive, eventful, and affirmative without being sentimental." --Time"Luminous, haunting, restrained . . . cuts to the core of human existence." --Chicago Tribune"Resonates with psychological reality: the beautifully layered relationships, the tracing of the many-layered love between father and child, husband and wife. . . . As artfully conceived as it is poignantly realized." --The New York Times Book Review"A great pleasure to read. . . . McEwan writes as if Dickens, Lawrence, and Woolf were in his bones. . . . Funny and unsentimentally passionate." --The Wall Street Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140112464
• ISBN 13: 9780140112467
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272