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.
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.
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.
Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets. He ...
Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of more than ten books, including the novels The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Child in Time, winner of the Whitbread Award, as well as the story collections First Love, Last Rites, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets. He has also written screenplays, plays, television scripts, a children’s book, and the libretto for an oratorio. He lives in London.
Biography
One of the most distinguished novelists of his generation, Ian McEwan was born in England and spent much of his childhood traveling with his father, an army officer stationed in the Far East, Germany, and North Africa. He graduated from Sussex University in 1970 with a degree in English Literature and received his MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
McEwan burst upon the literary scene in the mid-1970s with two short story collections that highlighted with equal clarity his early predilection for disturbing, somewhat shocking subject matter and his dazzling prose style. Similarly, his 1978 debut novel, The Cement Garden, attracted as much attention for its unsettling storyline as for its stylistic brilliance. But even though his early work was saturated with deviant sex, violence, and death (so much so that he earned the nickname "Ian MacAbre"), he was never dismissed as a mere purveyor of cheap thrills. In fact, two of his most provocative works (The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love) were shortlisted for major U.K. awards.
As he has matured, McEwan has moved away from disquieting themes like incest, sadism, and psychotic obsession to explore more introspective human dramas. In an interview with The New Republic he described his literary evolution in this way:
"One passes the usual milestones in life: You have children, you find that whether you like it or not, you have a huge investment in the human project somehow succeeding. You become maybe a little more tolerant as you get older. Pessimism begins to feel something like a badge that you perhaps do not wear so easily. There is something delicious and reckless about the pessimism of being 21. And when you get older you feel maybe a little more delicate and hope that things will flourish. You don't want to take a stick to it."
Among many literary honors, McEwan has been awarded the Somerset Maugham Award for First Love, Last Rites (1976) and the Whitbread Prize for The Child in Time (1987). Nominated three times for the Booker Prize, he finally won in 1998 for Amsterdam. He has also received the WH Smith Literary Award and National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award for Atonement (2001) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Saturday (2005).
3.5，the fact that this is McEwan's debut novel is surprising and reasonable at the same time... 基本上囊括了他后来很长一段时间的创作母题，利落冷僻的风格也具雏形，孤寂的独白和近乎白描的叙事复调echo主题，对失怙缺爱的探询让我想起无人知晓，但他更挑衅，有让人惊讶的完成度。但毕竟是处女作，打磨得明显不如后...3.5，the fact that this is McEwan's debut novel is surprising and reasonable at the same time... 基本上囊括了他后来很长一段时间的创作母题，利落冷僻的风格也具雏形，孤寂的独白和近乎白描的叙事复调echo主题，对失怙缺爱的探询让我想起无人知晓，但他更挑衅，有让人惊讶的完成度。但毕竟是处女作，打磨得明显不如后来作品，这甚至可以更短的。(展开)
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0 有用 橘 きよあき 2016-05-01 01:19:42
探讨某种别样的可能性 一種日本氣味 derek和一些其他部分还可以再饱满些 總體是喜歡的
0 有用 樹君 2020-08-15 13:02:05
3.5，the fact that this is McEwan's debut novel is surprising and reasonable at the same time... 基本上囊括了他后来很长一段时间的创作母题，利落冷僻的风格也具雏形，孤寂的独白和近乎白描的叙事复调echo主题，对失怙缺爱的探询让我想起无人知晓，但他更挑衅，有让人惊讶的完成度。但毕竟是处女作，打磨得明显不如后... 3.5，the fact that this is McEwan's debut novel is surprising and reasonable at the same time... 基本上囊括了他后来很长一段时间的创作母题，利落冷僻的风格也具雏形，孤寂的独白和近乎白描的叙事复调echo主题，对失怙缺爱的探询让我想起无人知晓，但他更挑衅，有让人惊讶的完成度。但毕竟是处女作，打磨得明显不如后来作品，这甚至可以更短的。 (展开)
0 有用 Fitzzzzzz 2013-07-01 09:23:47
Ian Macabre
0 有用 一样的耳朵 2018-08-27 09:21:07
写得是很好，这点毋庸置疑/但是姐弟乱伦的情节真的是让人非常不适/弟弟退回到了婴儿期/如果是想表达父母去世后，姐弟代替父母构建了一个新家庭，那就太刻意，太学院派，太机械了/有点想起来看《床笫之间》的感觉了/不知是否创作前期和后期的差别，看来要避免前期的作品
0 有用 ℨℨℨ 2020-10-30 08:35:19
Can’t relate
0 有用 momo 2023-11-29 15:23:26 四川
小目标达成，现在的阅读能力啃原著已经不太费劲了，真好。以及…看几遍都还是很喜欢！
0 有用 尚未 2023-07-04 22:38:48 上海
伊甸园般的无邪与原始 孤岛意象 冷峻而快速的叙述
0 有用 Lacie 2023-03-20 15:22:41 美国
Let them be
0 有用 Alonerd 2022-10-23 14:59:03 山西
屋檐或可御风挡雨，却止不住屋檐下的人内心之深处的情愫蔓生。由亲情异化的爱欲，比之寻常爱欲，需要更多的无畏与坦诚。恐怖伊恩的作品总是敢于涉足人伦禁地，敢于探照这片始终存在的黑暗森林。
0 有用 JEANINE要加油 2022-02-03 06:56:54
用外界眼光审视当然会觉得很不正常，但在本身几乎与世隔绝的状态下，评判标准和行为依据都是靠自己判断的，花园有自己的一套规则，这是他们的世界。这本书让我重新审视了当下没有外界注视的自己。