Ian McEwan's most recent novel, Machines Like Me, explores the bizarre science-fiction reality of 1982 London through Charlie Friend's first person point of view. After Charlie spends the entirety of his inheritance money on an artificial human, Adam, he struggles to balance his technological and romantic relationships. Through Charlie's experiences with Adam and his partner Miranda, McEwan explores the moral and ethical complexities of scientific advancement and the human obsession with immortality.
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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Ian (Russell) McEwan