To avoid being taken into custody, they bury their mother in the cement of the basement and attempt to carry on life as normally as possible. McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden (1978), is the story of four orphaned children living alone after the death of both parents. These stories-claustrophobic tales of childhood, deviant sexuality and disjointed family life-were remarkable for their formal experimentation and controlled narrative voice. A second volume of his work appeared in 1978.
In another, over the course of a weekend, a guilt-ridden father with his teenage daughter discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence.įirst Love, Last Rites was McEwan's first published book and is a collection of short stories that in 1976 won the Somerset Maugham Award. In another, a jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. In one, a two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. Whether these are the written transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of our psyche, all seven stories in this collection implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable.
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