| The Innocent Contributor(s): McEwan, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385494335 ISBN-13: 9780385494335 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life -- and to lose his unwanted innocence. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening -- a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed. "From the Paperback edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Historical - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.22" W x 8.03" (0.54 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep in this masterful work from the author of Atonement. Twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham's intelligence work--tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow--offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. His relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening--a night when Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed. |