Understanding Ian McEwan Malcolm Hardback MP–SCA Uni of South Carolina

Understanding Ian McEwanAuthor(s): David Malcolm\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of South Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: University of South Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781570034367, 978-1570034367\nSynopsis\nThis is a discussion of the work of one of Britain's most highly regarded novelists and the winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. David Malcolm places Ian McEwan's work in the context of British literature's particular dynamism in the last decades of the 20th century. He also examines McEwan's relationship to feminism, concern with rationalism and science, use of moral perspective, and proclivity toward fragmentation. Malcolm offers close readings of McEwan's early short stories, which he recognizes as traditional and conservative in technique despite their shocking subject matter, and all of McEwan's novels. Employing the third novel, \""\""The Child in Time\""\"", as the fulcrum for his discussion, Malcolm explores the themes of incest, espionage, moral self-flagellatio.