- Imagination, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Family
An imaginative ten-year-old boy, who is best understood by his family, recounts some of the adventures he has while daydreaming.
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Warm, spare, intimate and contemporary.
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Ian McEwan
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 151
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada, Penguin Random House, Recorded Books
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780385661256
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“Ever since he could remember, Peter had shared a bedroom with Kate.”
Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. He began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. His first two novels, *The Cement Garden* (1978) and The *Comfort of Strangers* (1981), earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". These were followed by three novels of some success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His 1997 novel *Enduring Love* was adapted into a film of the same name. He won the Booker Prize with *Amsterdam* (1998). He was awarded the 1999 Shakespeare Prize. His next novel, *Atonement* (2001), garnered acclaim and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film. He received the 2011 Jerusalem Prize. His later novels have included *The Children Act,
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