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Overview

In un solo volume tutta la produzione «breve» di Ian McEwan - ovverosia le short stories comprese nelle raccolte Primo amore, ultimi riti (1975) e Fra le lenzuola (1978) - per offrire al lettore l'intera gamma della scrittura (e degli incubi) dell'allora giovanissimo scrittore inglese. I primi racconti attraversano ossessioni e atmosfere inquietanti, rapporti familiari morbosi, amori torbidi, bambini tormentati da inaudite crudeltà fisiche e psicologiche. Negli altri, il ritmo incalzante e la forte tensione ci introducono in un universo in bilico tra visioni oniriche e desolante realtà, allucinazioni solitarie e sempre vani tentativi di comunicare: uno scimmione che si lascia dominare da una scrittrice inaridita; un manichino con sembianze femminili che prima appaga e poi distrugge le piú folli speranze feticistiche; la violenza che esplode in una serie di ambigui oggetti lucenti (spade, lucchetti, bisturi)...

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788858416679
Publisher: EINAUDI
Publication date: 10/14/2014
Sold by: GIULIO EINAUDI EDITORE - EBKS
Format: eBook
File size: 377 KB
Language: Italian

About the Author

About The Author
One of the most celebrated writers of our time, British author Ian McEwan is a bestselling novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His critically acclaimed novel, Atonement, was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. McEwan is known for his emotionally complex stories; his books often present the same experience from multiple perspectives. Ian McEwan's other bestselling books include Enduring Love, Saturday, The Cement Garden, On Chesil Beach, Machines Like Me, and Lessons, among others. McEwan's writing has been nominated for numerous awards, and he won the Booker Prize for his novel, Amsterdam, in 1998. McEwan lives in London.

Hometown:

Oxford, England

Date of Birth:

June 21, 1948

Place of Birth:

Aldershot, England

Education:

B.A., University of Sussex, 1970; M.A., University of East Anglia, 1971
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