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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ian McEwanPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.307kg ISBN: 9780099578789ISBN 10: 0099578786 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 09 May 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsRiveting... Delicious... Gripping Guardian Sweet Tooth takes the expectations and tropes of the Cold War thriller and ratchets up the suspense, while turning it into something else... A well-crafted pleasure to read, its smooth prose and slippery intelligence sliding down like cream -- Amanda Craig Independent A thoroughly clever novel...a sublime novel about novels, about writing them and reading them and the spying that goes on in doing both...very impressive...rich and enjoyable -- Lucy Kellaway Financial Times Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny -- Arminta Wallace Irish Times Playful, comic... This is a great big Russian doll of a novel, and in its construction - deft, tight, exhilaratingly immaculate - is a huge part of its pleasure...exerts a keen emotional pull -- Julie Myerson Observer One of the most hotly anticipated novels of the year...it's brilliant Sunday Business Post A thoroughly clever novel...a sublime novel about novels, about writing them and reading them and the spying that goes on in doing both...very impressive...rich and enjoyable -- Lucy Kellaway Financial Times I loved it. It reminded me of his most successful novel, Atonement Harpers Bazaar Online Ian McEwan proves he's still the master penman with his twelfth novel Grazia McEwan's prose is controlled, his observation forensic as ever... McEwan carries us with irresistible momentum to a surprise ending -- Maggie Ferguson Intelligent Life Author InformationIan McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |