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| Name: |
Ian (Russell) McEwan | | Variant Name: |
Ian McEwan, Ian Russell McEwan | | Birth Date: |
June 21, 1948 | | Nationality: |
British, English | | Gender: |
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Biography of Ian (Russell) McEwan
5,102 words, approx. 17 pages
 Ian McEwan first came to public notice in 1975; he was immediately recognized as an important and new voice on the fictional scene. Along with Martin Amis and Julian Barnes, his contemporaries, he is one of the most esteemed novelists of his...
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Biography of Ian (Russell) McEwan
3,907 words, approx. 13 pages
 Ian McEwan is very much a product of the new British universities, those popularly known as "plate-glass universities" to distinguish them from the older "red-brick universities" at which writers such as Kinglsey Amis or Philip Larkin have taught or...



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Ian McEwan Quotes
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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Ian McEwan Information
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 Ian McEwan (IPA: /ˈiːən mɪˈkjuən/[1]) CBE (born June 21, 1948) is a Booker Prize winning [2] English...




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 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Talking With: Ian McEwan
03/20/2005: 995 words, approx. 3 pages London There are two kinds of men in the operating theater: those who spook and those who don't. Ian McEwan belongs firmly in the latter camp. A year ago, the 56-year-old Booker-winning novelist accompanied a neurologist to brain surgery as research for...
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 The Boston Globe
The moods and scenes of Ian McEwan
03/02/1999: 1,513 words, approx. 5 pages NEW YORK -- Ian McEwan doesn't seem so creepy in the flesh. You'd think he would be, this novelist who has chalked up some of the most vividly creepy scenes in contemporary literature. There's the savage betrayal that climaxes "The Comfort of...
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 AP News
Short novel is OK with Ian McEwan
10/9/2007: 285 words, approx. 1 pages British author Ian McEwan defended himself against criticism that his book, "On Chesil Beach," which has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is too short to count as a novel.At just over 200 pages, the book's action unfolds over one evening as a newly...
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 The New York Observer
Saturday, October 6th
10/2/2007: 270 words, approx. 1 pages When Canadians Attack: Forget Saturday afternoon power yoga followed by a three-hour nap: Canadian wunderkinds the Arcade Fire swoop into town, hipster doofus heads explode, and the under-30 population of New York migrates en masse to the band’s latest weird-and-hard-to-get-to venue. (Randall’s Island? In the...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jago Morrison
7,417 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following essay, Morrison examines aspects of time, gender identity, and historical memory in Black Dogs and Enduring Love, particularly as informed by Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative and the feminist theory of Julia Kristeva.
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Critical Review by Oliver Reynolds
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 In the following review, Reynolds proposes that each of McEwan's novels follows a template of three parts revolving around a male-female relationship, an external threat to that relationship, and a definite focus on language. However, Reynolds faults Enduring Love for its asides on scientific theory and the vagaries of love, and its use of multiple narrative points of view.
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Critical Essay by Helen Harris
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 The events which take place in Ian McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden, are as apparently unnatural, though less gratuitously so, as in most of the stories in First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets. The ten tidy chapters are a chart of ugliness, death, rotting cadavers, incest and perversion. Most family taboos are briskly broken, but, on the part of the narrator at least, there is no relish. (p. 104) It is the startling combination of everyday banality with the most horrendous acts tha...


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