Sweet Tooth (Signed First Edition)

McEWAN, Ian

ISBN 10: 0224097377 / ISBN 13: 9780224097376

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2012

About this Item

First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 320 pages. A novel with a female protagonist from the author of the acclaimed Booker Prize novel "Atonement" and numerous other classics. A tight near fine copy with the expected toning to the pages and in a very near fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 210604

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sweet Tooth (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224097377
• ISBN 13: 9780224097376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere.

Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a ‘secret mission’ which brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage – trust no one.

McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self.

About the Author

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.