Black Dogs
by Ian McEwan
List Price: $14.00
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0385494327
Publisher: Anchor
In a 1987 interview in Publishers Weekly, Ian McEwan said, "[W]hen
you love someone, it's not uncommon to measure that love by fantasizing
about his absence. You gauge things by their opposite." In McEwan's works,
the opposite is a theme. His characters may take action that seems opposite
to all sorts of things, their best interests, their lovers, their friends,
their morals, or their political, religious, or rationalist beliefs. This
is the tension and the story. And it is this, along with his acute and
beautifully written observations about the opposites that infuse our lives,
that keep readers waiting for the next McEwan novel.
McEwan is the author of two short-story collections, First Love, Last
Rites and In Between the Sheets, and eight novels: The Cement
Garden; The Comfort of Strangers, short-listed for the 1981
Booker Prize; The Child in Time, winner of the 1987 Whitbread Novel
of the Year Award; The Innocent; Black Dogs; The Daydreamer;
Enduring Love; and Amsterdam, winner of the 1998 Booker
Prize.
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