IanMcEwan.com

Ian McEwan won acclaim in the 1970s with novels like The Cement Garden (1978), which examined extreme areas of human experience. In 1998 he won the Booker Prize for Amsterdam. In recent years he has reached a post-critical stage of his career, celebrated all but automatically for novels like Atonement (2001) and Saturday (2005), which offer the reader narrative surprises, suspense and elegant language.

THE ARCH MANIPULATOR

If McEwan's novels have lost their original dirt and darkness and gained something of a heritage sheen, their author, nonetheless, remains an exceptionally gifted writer blessed with an Hitchcockian level of manipulative power. There are few writers who can convincingly pull off the sort of narrative tricks that makes Atonement a study in the art of literary narrative.

THE WEBSITE

This is an impressively detailed site. For the casual fan, the scholar or the journalist looking for background information, IanMcEwan.com offers an excellent resource. There are interviews, reviews, articles by McEwan, bibliographies of critical work about the author from around the world, a discussion board, a blog and all the latest news. 

19 Jan 10