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...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Anne Tyler
["The Cement Garden"] is really a kind of extended dream, although there's nothing dreamy about the precision and clarity of the writing. Its narrato...
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Critical Essay by Tom Paulin
Privacy is one of the imaginative poles of a story [The Cement Garden] whose ambiguities tease and fascinate me the more I reflect on it. McEwan's imagination move...
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Teaching The Cement Garden
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The Cement Garden Lesson Plans contain 131 pages of teaching material, including:
Ian (Russell) McEwan
Critical Essay by Anne Tyler
