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Ian McEwan

A concise guide to Ian McEwan's body of work, major titles, and recurring themes.

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Author overview

Ian McEwan (born 1948) is a novelist and playwright whose body of work spans novels. This writing is associated with United Kingdom. Major works and useful reading starting points include Atonement and The Cement Garden. Key themes include Misreading and irreversible harm, Guilt, apology, and atonement, Class and institutional power, and Fiction, truth, and mercy.

Reading pathway

Begin with Atonement.

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Atonement

A layered novel about a child's catastrophic misreading, the damage done by class and war, and the uneasy power of fiction to imagine repair.

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