The Child in Time

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'This is the McEwan you and I have been waiting for . . . The Child In Time is an extraordinary achievement in which form and content, theory and practice are so expertly and inseparably interwoven that the növel becomes an advertisement for, or proof of, its own thesis. I alsó found it very moving, the ending beautifully so . . . ' Sheila MacLeod, Guardian 'It is marvellously written, moving, serious, readable, and draws on that innocence which great English writers have always been able to recapture, and which is a much harder thing to come by than experience. If you want to be appalled, refreshed, exhilarated, enlivened - read it' John Carey, Sunday Times 'It attains a new level of seriousness without relinquishing an abiding and anarchic sense of fun' Judy Cook, Listener 'For the almost unbearable immediacy of its writing as it studies the world in enlarged close-up, for its spooky, intellectual playfulness, and for the ingenuity and beauty of its formai architecture - a... Tovább

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'This is the McEwan you and I have been waiting for . . . The Child In Time is an extraordinary achievement in which form and content, theory and practice are so expertly and inseparably interwoven that the növel becomes an advertisement for, or proof of, its own thesis. I alsó found it very moving, the ending beautifully so . . . ' Sheila MacLeod, Guardian 'It is marvellously written, moving, serious, readable, and draws on that innocence which great English writers have always been able to recapture, and which is a much harder thing to come by than experience. If you want to be appalled, refreshed, exhilarated, enlivened - read it' John Carey, Sunday Times 'It attains a new level of seriousness without relinquishing an abiding and anarchic sense of fun' Judy Cook, Listener 'For the almost unbearable immediacy of its writing as it studies the world in enlarged close-up, for its spooky, intellectual playfulness, and for the ingenuity and beauty of its formai architecture - a wonderful növel' Jonathan Raban, Observer 'Its brilliance and extraordinary intensity have a hypnotic effect. Like Ernst and Magritte, McEwan has the Surrealist knack of making the world gleam with a light that never was on land and sea. He can alsó be extremely funny' New York Review ofBooks Winner of the 1987 Whitbread Prize for Fiction Cover photograph by Robin Cracknell Vissza