Nutshell a novel

Title:

Nutshell a novel

Author:

McEwan, Ian, author.

ISBN:

9781501939495

Personal Author:

McEwan, Ian, author.

Edition:

Unabridged, [Recorded Books edition].

Publication Information:

Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2016]

Physical Description:

5 audio discs (5 hr., 15 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Title from container.

Release date supplied by publisher.

Recording produced by Penguin Random House UK, p2016.

Compact discs.

In container (17 cm.).

Abstract:

Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. 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.

Subject Term:

Pregnant women -- Fiction.

Married women -- Fiction.

Marital conflict -- Fiction.

Adultery -- Fiction.

Adultery. (OCoLC)fst00797378

Marital conflict. (OCoLC)fst01010071

Married women. (OCoLC)fst01010701

Pregnant women. (OCoLC)fst01075191

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Added Author:

Added Corporate Author:

Recorded Books, Inc.

Penguin Random House.

Electronic Access:

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Performer/Artist:

Narrated by Rory Kinnear.

Document ID:

SD_ILS:2250306

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Summary

From the bestselling author of Atonement, 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. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour is just a speck in the universe of possible things.

Author Notes

Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot, England on June 21, 1948. He received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Sussex and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of East Anglia. He writes novels, plays, and collections of short stories including In Between the Sheets, The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers, The Innocent, Black Dogs, The Daydreamer, Enduring Love, Sweet Tooth, The Children Act and Nutshell.

He has won numerous awards including the 1976 Somerset Maugham Award for First Love, Last Rites; the 1987 Whitbread Novel Award and the 1993 Prix Fémina Etranger for The Child in Time; the 1998 Booker Prize for Fiction for Amserdam; the 2002 W. H. Smith Literary Award, the 2003 National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award, the 2003 Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction, and the 2004 Santiago Prize for the European Novel for Atonement; and the 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Saturday.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

The nearly full-term fetus who narrates McEwan's latest novel is aware of his limitations; in addition to living in an increasingly cramped environment-the metaphorical and titular nutshell-his knowledge of the world is broad but incomplete. What he has learned in nine months of gestation has been gleaned from overheard conversations and the media consumed by Trudy, his mother. Still, his sense of propriety is as well formed as that of the most ardent Emily Post devotee, and he finds Trudy's adultery and eviction of John, his father, from his own childhood home to be absolutely unacceptable. Learning that Claude, Trudy's lover, is also John's brother nearly gives the narrator the fetal version of the vapors. His inability to intervene makes his mother's and uncle's treachery, first in their infidelity, then in their hastily constructed plot to murder John, that much more distressing to witness. Rory Kinnear ably voices the novel's small cast of characters. VERDICT Although some might find the perspective and content to be polarizing, this novel is recommended for all general fiction collections. ["An expansive meditation on stability and identity from a confined perspective": LJ 9/1/16 starred review of the Doubleday hc.]-Nicole -Williams, New York © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.