Black Dogs

by Ian McEwan Narrated by Steven Crossley

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

An emotional novel balancing the sprawling impact of post-Nazi Europe against the internal struggles of one couple and family, the tension spreads outward as the consequences of past actions come back to rattle a married couple and their son-in-law. This was a somewhat polarizing novel for critics but those that love it have considered it one of McEwan’s best.

Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Booker Prize, Ian McEwan is one of the most highly regarded contemporary authors in the English language. A fictional memoir set in late 1980s Europe, Black Dogs contemplates individuals responding to vast impersonal forces. Orphaned at the age of eight, Jeremy finds the course of his life transient and groundless until he marries and begins writing a memoir of his wife's estranged parents.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Brilliant.... [A] meditation on ... the intoxications and the redemptive power of love." —The New Yorker

"Subtle and unforgettable." —Voice Literary Supplement

"The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities ... we are conquered by the humanity, the urgency, of the novel's characters." —The New York Times Book Review

"Each scene is brilliantly lit, and has a characteristically strange fascination as Ian McEwan juxtaposes 'huge and tiny currents' to show the ways in which individuals react to history." —The New York Review of Books

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170967919
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	05/23/2008
Edition description:	Unabridged

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