The Cement Garden

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The Cement Garden

novel by McEwan

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Ian McEwan
Education and first works
His first novel, The Cement Garden (1978; film 1993), traces the incestuous decline of a family of orphaned children. The Comfort of Strangers (1981; film 1990) is a nightmarish novel about an English couple in Venice. Such plotlines and themes earned him the nickname “Ian Macabre.”
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His first novel, The Cement Garden (1978; film 1993), traces the incestuous decline of a family of orphaned children. The Comfort of Strangers (1981; film 1990) is a nightmarish novel about an English couple in Venice. Such plotlines and themes earned him the nickname “Ian Macabre.”
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