Nutshell by Ian Mcewan
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse but not with John. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.
An astonishing act of literary ventriloquism unlike any in recent literatureA bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master... Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a shocking tale of murder and treachery from one of the world's master storytellers. * Daily Telegraph *
A creative gamble that pays off brilliantly...Witty and gently tragic, this short, bewitching novel is an ode to humanity's beauty, selfishness and inextinguishable longing. -- Hephzibah Anderson * Mail on Sunday *
Ian McEwan's embryonic spin on Hamlet is a virtuoso feat of wordplay ... Virtuoso entertainment. -- Tim Adams * Observer *
While the literary device of an unborn baby narrating a novel from the womb is hardly original... Ian McEwan employs it with aplomb... Here everything is tightly controlled and the tension ratchets up as our all-knowing unborn watches helplessly from his watery sack while the dastardly plan progresses through a series of nail-biting moments... The ending is beautifully contrived... The book is elegantly written with plenty of pungent, topical observations upon the world. -- John Harding * Daily Mail *
At once playful and deadly serious, delightful and frustrating it is one of McEwan's hardest to categorise works, and all the more interesting for it. -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst * The Times *
A creative gamble that pays off brilliantly...Witty and gently tragic, this short, bewitching novel is an ode to humanity's beauty, selfishness and inextinguishable longing. -- Hephzibah Anderson * Mail on Sunday *
Ian McEwan's embryonic spin on Hamlet is a virtuoso feat of wordplay ... Virtuoso entertainment. -- Tim Adams * Observer *
While the literary device of an unborn baby narrating a novel from the womb is hardly original... Ian McEwan employs it with aplomb... Here everything is tightly controlled and the tension ratchets up as our all-knowing unborn watches helplessly from his watery sack while the dastardly plan progresses through a series of nail-biting moments... The ending is beautifully contrived... The book is elegantly written with plenty of pungent, topical observations upon the world. -- John Harding * Daily Mail *
At once playful and deadly serious, delightful and frustrating it is one of McEwan's hardest to categorise works, and all the more interesting for it. -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst * The Times *
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. 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; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9781786140197 |
| Title | Nutshell |
| Release date | 2016-09-01 |
| Format | Audiobook CD Unabridged |
| Studio | Audiobooks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Ian McEwan |
| Read by | Rory Kinnear |