{"product_id":"the-cement-garden-isbn-9780679750185","title":"The Cement Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this \"irresistibly readable\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cb\u003etour de force of psychological unease, the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAtonement \u003c\/i\u003eexcavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eor denying.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the arid summer heat, four children—Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom—find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children’s lives twist into something unrecognizable as the outside begins to bear down on them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDon’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, \u003ci\u003eLessons.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery—and irresistibly readable.... The effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism—a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of \u003ci\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Darkly impressive.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A superb achievement: his prose has instant,  lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account  of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of  his story is exactly right.” —Tom Paulin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Marvellously creates the atmosphere  of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes  on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult  to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable.” —Sunday Times\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The Maestro.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"McEwan has—a style and a vision of life of his  own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford  not to read him.\" —John Fowles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A sparkling and adventurous writer.\" —Dennis  Potter\u003cb\u003eIAN MCEWAN\u003c\/b\u003e is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eFirst Love, Last Rites, \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Child in Time,\u003c\/i\u003e which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam,\u003c\/i\u003e which won the 1998 Booker Prize; \u003ci\u003eAtonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMachines Like Me, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a number-one bestseller. \u003ci\u003eAtonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Chesil Beach\u003c\/i\u003e have all been adapted for the big screen.Bestselling author of Antonement","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300542730469,"sku":"NP9780679750185","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679750185.jpg?v=1767738641","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-cement-garden-isbn-9780679750185","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}