Black Dogs: A Novel

Author: McEwan, Ian

Brand: ANCHOR BOOKS

Color: Multicolor

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 176

Release Date: 01-01-1999

Part Number: 9780385494328

Details: Product Description
Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and June cannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs, only to be led back again and again to one terrifying encouner forty years earlier—a moment that, for June, was as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy's own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination of evil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civiliation's darkest moods—its black dogs—with the tensions that both create love and destroy it.
Review
"Brilliant. . . . [A] meditation on . . . the intoxications and the redemptive power of love." —
The New Yorker

"Subtle and unforgettable." —
Voice Literary Supplement

"The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities . . . we are conquered by the humanity, the urgency, of the novel's characters." —
The New York Times Book Review

"Each scene is brilliantly lit, and has a characteristically strange fascination as Ian McEwan juxtaposes 'huge and tiny currents' to show the ways in which individuals react to history." —
The New York Review of Books
From the Inside Flap
In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon.  Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever.  In this highly praised national bestseller, Ian McEwan has written his most humane and compelling novel to date.



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From the Back Cover
In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever. In this highly praised national bestseller, Ian McEwan has written his most humane and compelling novel to date.
"From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of fifteen previous books, including the novels 
Sweet Tooth; 
Solar, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; 
On Chesil Beach; 
Saturday; 
Atonement, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; 
The Comfort of Strangers and 
Black Dogs, both short-listed 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.

EAN: 9780385494328

Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches

Languages: English