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).
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.
这对我来说就是一部恐怖小说,不是因为最后乱伦的情节,这其实让我觉得挺过瘾。 当发现主人公的装老成的心智和他取悦自己的各种小伎俩我在过去的十几年里一直用着,没有变得娴熟也没有丝毫将被成熟取代的迹象时,这时我才感到特别害怕。事实上我并没有因仍然保持这样心智而高...
评分 评分 评分在看了那么多对于杰克的解析之后,我反倒对朱莉更感兴趣。在麦克尤恩惯常使用的青春期男孩视角下,女孩往往投射着他们的某种渴望。对于杰克来说,朱莉气质里带着的诱惑性和侵略性能满足他成长里某种隐秘的幻想。在一开头朱莉就被描述成那种校园里的popular girl. 她穿着亮绿色...
评分《水泥花园》里其实是没有花园的,在花园没有完工的时候患病的父亲因为无力再继续建造,所以把它砌成了水泥平台,那里没有鲜花,只有野草在周围像几个青春期前后的孩子一样正疯狂的成长。然而这又的确是一个无人打理的花园:四个孩子在父亲去世之后又面临了母亲的死亡,为了免于...
在这样的日子读这本书真是再适合不过了。
评分Ian McEwan的童年阴影。。。
评分在这样的日子读这本书真是再适合不过了。
评分通篇都是”我“四六不靠的叙述,让脑补主要情节成为必须,而且细思恐极。总觉得Sue有点可有可无,不过问题不大。另外这玩意还有电影????
评分期待太大的作品
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