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The Cement Garden

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3.53 ( 35,407 Ratings by Goodreads)
The Cement Garden

The Cement Garden

(Author)
3.53 (35,407 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 5 June, 1997
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Description

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780099755111
ISBN10 0099755114
Number Of Pages 160
Item Weight 135 g
Product Dimensions 128 x 197 x 10 mm
Publisher / Reseller Vintage Publishing
Format paperback
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Media Reviews

A macabre but unforgettable tale * Guardian *
One of his very best… Deliciously disturbing. * Big Issue in the North *
A macabre but unforgettable tale * Guardian *
One of his very best… Deliciously disturbing. * Big Issue in the North *
An unforgettable tale * Guardian *
Hypnotic * New Yorker *
An extremely assured, technically adept and compelling piece of work * Observer *
Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow * Sunday Times *
A shocking book...irresistibly readable * New York Review of Books *
Darkly impressive * The Times *

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Author's Bio

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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