Lessons - Grand Format

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Ian McEwan - Lessons.
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down.... Lire la suite
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Résumé

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes, leaving him alone with their baby son.
He is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence. As the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe he begins a search for answers that looks deep into his family history and will last for the rest of his life. From the Suez and Cuban Missile crises and the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it.
Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means - literature, travel, friendship, drugs, sex and politics.A profound love is cut tragically short. Then, in his final years, he finds love again in another form. His journey raises important questions. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others ? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories ? And what can we learn from the traumas of the past ?

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    13/09/2022
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-1-78733-397-0
  • EAN
    9781787333970
  • Format
    Grand Format
  • Présentation
    Relié
  • Nb. de pages
    486 pages
  • Poids
    0.725 Kg
  • Dimensions
    16,0 cm × 24,0 cm × 4,0 cm

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Biographie d'Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short-story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award ; The Cement Garden ; Enduring Love ; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize ; Atonement ; Saturday ; On Chesil Beach ; Solar ; Sweet Tooth ; The Children Act ; Nutshell ; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller.
Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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