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The Child in Time - by Ian McEwan (Paperback)

The Child in Time - by  Ian McEwan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>With extraordinary insight and tenderness, this 1987 Whitbread Award-winning novel takes readers into the dark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Soon to be on public television starring Benedict Cumberbatch.</b> <p/>Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone. <p/>With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the dark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging paths as they each struggle with a grief that only seems to intensify with the passage of time. Eloquent and passionate, the novel concludes in a triumphant scene of love and hope that gives full rein to the author's remarkable gifts. The winner of the Whitbread Prize, <i>The Child in Time</i> is an astonishing novel by one of the finest writers of his generation.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>A death-defying story, inventive, eventful, and affirmative without being sentimental. --<i>Time</i></p><p> </p><p>Luminous, haunting, restrained . . . cuts to the core of human existence. --<i>Chicago Tribune</i></p><p> </p><p>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. --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></p><p> </p><p>A great pleasure to read. . . . McEwan writes as if Dickens, Lawrence, and Woolf were in his bones. . . . Funny and unsentimentally passionate. --<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels<i> </i><b>The Comfort of Strangers</b><i> </i>and <b>Black Dogs</b><i>, </i>both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, <b>Amsterdam</b><i>, </i>winner of the Booker Prize, <i> </i>and <b>The Child in Time</b><i>, </i>winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections <b>First Love, Last Rites</b><i>, </i>winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and <b>In Between the Sheets</b><i>. </i>He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children's book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.

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