The Cement Garden - Hardcover
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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"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
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'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
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0224043978
- ISBN 13 9780224043977
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages144
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. McEwan, Ian THE CEMENT GARDEN London, England: Jonathan Cape 1996. FIRST EDITION Full number line. As New/As New 138 pp. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth with gilt title on the spine. Text is clean and clear. In the original unclipped dust jacket. The pages are clean and square with no remainder marks. The piece is in excellent condition. Seller Inventory # 17633
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Edition. Hardback in jacket 1996. 1st printing of the new edition. 20.5x13cm. 138 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has some edge wear. Front flap is not price-clipped: £9.99. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref CRV/26. Seller Inventory # 044183
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