
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
Ian McEwan (author)
£8.99
Paperback
160 Pages
Published: 05/06/1997
Published: 05/06/1997
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...
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099755111
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 143 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
An unforgettable tale -- John Boyne * Guardian *
Hypnotic -- John Updike * 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 *
Hypnotic -- John Updike * 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 *
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