Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which
More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof.Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps
Conversations with Ian McEwan collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author of such highly praised novels as Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship,
This volume contains the stories from both of McEwan's previous collections: First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets. The former was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award.
Negli ultimi cento anni matematica e letteratura hanno incrociato il loro cammino innumerevoli volte, troppe perché si tratti soltanto di incontri casuali. Se è vero che entrambe sono attività di "finzione" e consistono principalmente nell'invenzione d
Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master.
To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two in
