Ian McEwan is one of Britain’s most distinguished novelists. A contemporary fiction author, McEwan can most often be found within our bookstore in the Literature and Bestseller sections. He has written eleven novels and two short story collections, over 50% of which have been adapted into films.
His first published work was a collection of short stories entitled First Love, Last Rites (1975) which won the Somerset Maugham Award. One of the stories, “Solid Geometry,” was produced as a play in 1979 and later as a short film in 2002. His first novel was The Cement Garden, a disturbing story about four children who conceal their parents’ deaths to avoid being taken into state custody. After being shortlisted a number of times, in 1998 he won the Booker prize for Amsterdam, a morality tale about the intertwining lives of a newspaper editor and a composer, both of whom become obsessed with revenge. One of his most famous books is Atonement, and in 2007 this story of a young woman’s tragic mistake and her quest for atonement was adapted into a highly acclaimed film starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Vanessa Redgrave. In 2010 he published Solar, a satirical novel whose protagonist is a Nobel-prize winning physicist.
Ian McEwan will be giving a presentation and signing at Central Library downtown on Saturday, Dec 4th at 10:30am on the second floor. This event is free, open to the public and will have copies of his books available to purchase.
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