McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. Rosetta presents modern classics from groundbreaking author Ian McEwan, author of Atonement and First Love, Last Rites (among others) in a special collection that offer readers the full-range of McEwan's smart, savvy, and engaging prose. Readers may know McEwan's work through these and other books, or more recently through his novel, Atonement, which was made into a major motion picture. The story revolves around the devastating effects of the loss of a child through child abduction. The Child in Time (1987) won the Whitbread Novel Award and marked a new confidence in McEwan's writing. The Cement Garden was followed by The Comfort of Strangers (1981), set in Venice, a tale of fantasy, violence, and obsession. Soon, an incestuous relationship develops between the two oldest children as they seek to emulate their parents roles. To avoid being taken into custody, they bury their mother in the cement of the basement and attempt to carry on life as normally as possible.
McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden (1978), is the story of four orphaned children living alone after the death of both parents. These stories-claustrophobic tales of childhood, deviant sexuality and disjointed family life-were remarkable for their formal experimentation and controlled narrative voice. A second volume of his work appeared in 1978. In another, over the course of a weekend, a guilt-ridden father with his teenage daughter discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence.įirst Love, Last Rites was McEwan's first published book and is a collection of short stories that in 1976 won the Somerset Maugham Award. In another, a jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. In one, a two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. Whether these are the written transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of our psyche, all seven stories in this collection implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable.
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