McEwan

/ məˈkjuːən /

noun

1. Ian ( Russell ). born 1948, British novelist and short-story writer. His books include First Love, Last Rites (1975), The Child in Time (1987), The Innocent (1990), Amsterdam (which won the Booker prize in 1998), Atonement (2001), Saturday (2005), and On Chesil Beach (2007)

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With a tale about a scholar from a future century investigating the fate of a poem written in our own era, Ian McEwan paints an arresting picture of one possible destination for global civilization—and in the process delivers a thought-provoking novel about historical memory and the endurance of culture.

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Our 10 recommended books for September include an ambitious new novel from Ian McEwan, the latest from Elizabeth Gilbert and a photo-packed book from NBA great Steph Curry.

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Metcalfe’s task is greatly complicated by the fact that he lives in a future world where much of the planet has been either immolated or else submerged underwater by a nuclear cataclysm that McEwan calls “The Inundation.”

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But Metcalfe, as it turns out, has the details right and the motives all wrong, never more so than when McEwan reveals the fact of a murder, conceived in such a way that no snooping academic could ever unearth it.

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Metcalfe’s thesis is driven by a romanticized notion of Blundy’s life, but as McEwan slowly and carefully reveals, his poem, ostensibly a “repository of dreams,” more closely resembles a passive-aggressive act.

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