The Child in Time Contributor(s): McEwan, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385497520 ISBN-13: 9780385497527 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1999 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Psychological |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 99046225 |
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.24" W x 7.99" (0.50 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Soon to be on public television starring Benedict Cumberbatch. 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. 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, The Child in Time is an astonishing novel by one of the finest writers of his generation. |