Awards

• Winner of Man Booker Prize 1998

Overview

A National and International Bestseller Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize for Fiction A Globe and Mail Notable Book of 1998 On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence—Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the broadsheet The Judge. But gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger poised to be the next prime minister. What happens in the aftermath of her funeral has a profound and shocking effect on all her lovers' lives, and erupts in the most purely enjoyable fiction Ian McEwan has ever written.

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A dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned. <br>-- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times <br> A well-oiled machine....Ruthless and amusing. <br>-- The New York Times Book Review <br> Beautifully spare prose, wicked observation, and dark comic brio. <br>-- The Boston Globe <br> At once far-reaching and tightly self-contained, a fin de sie cle phantasmagoria. <br>-- New York <br> Ian McEwan has proven himself to be one of Britain's most distinct voices and one of its most versatile talents....Chilling and darkly comic. <br>-- Chicago Tribune <br> By far his best work to date...an energizing tightrope between feeling and lack of feeling, between humanity's capacity to support and save and its equally ubiquitous penchant for detachment and cruelty. <br>-- The San Diego Union-Tribune <br> You won't find a more enjoyable novel...masterfully wrought, sure to delight a reader with even half a sense of humor. <br>-- The Atlant Journal-Constitution <br> McEwan writes the sort of witty repartee and scathing retort we wished we thought of in the heat of battle. On a broader scale, McEwan's portrayal of the mutually parasitic relationship between politicians and journalists is as damning as it is comic. <br>-- The Christian Science Monitor

A dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned. <br>--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times <br><br> A well-oiled machine....Ruthless and amusing. <br>-- The New York Times Book Review <br><br> Beautifully spare prose, wicked observation, and dark comic brio. <br>-- The Boston Globe <br><br> At once far-reaching and tightly self-contained, a fin de siecle phantasmagoria. <br>-- New York <br><br> Ian McEwan has proven himself to be one of Britain's most distinct voices and one of its most versatile talents....Chilling and darkly comic. <br>-- Chicago Tribune <br><br> By far his best work to date...an energizing tightrope between feeling and lack of feeling, between humanity's capacity to support and save and its equally ubiquitous penchant for detachment and cruelty. <br>-- The San Diego Union-Tribune <br><br> You won't find a more enjoyable novel...masterfully wrought, sure to delight a reader with even half a sense of humor. <br>-- The Atlant Journal-Constitution <br><br> McEwan writes the sort of witty repartee and scathing retort we wished we thought of in the heat of battle. On a broader scale, McEwan's portrayal of the mutually parasitic relationship between politicians and journalists is as damning as it is comic. <br>-- The Christian Science Monitor

Author Information

IAN McEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of many novels and two collections of short stories. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen. He was awarded a CBE in 2000.

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