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Nutshell

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by Ian McEwan
Hardback
Publication Date: 29/08/2016
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Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature.

A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master.

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.

Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers.

ISBN:
9781911214335
9781911214335
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
29-08-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
208
Dimensions (mm):
225x146x22mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children's novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. 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 and The Children Act.

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Many authors have re-imagined Hamlet but few, if any, have conceived a telling from the perspective of an unborn infant. Ian McEwan thought ’why not?’

Nutshell is a blend of dramatic darkness and cold-hearted humour told entirely through the embryonic eyes of its tragic hero. His is a womb a view from which he grapples with the moral murk of impending matricide and experiences his own prenatal existential crisis – ‘To be or not to be…’ All of this is told in a hefty intellectual commentary with vocabulary that leaves full-grown humans reaching for their dictionaries. Unlike anything I’ve read before. Bravo.

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