The child in time / Ian McEwan.

By:

McEwan, Ian

Publication details: London : Vintage, 1997.Description: 220 p. ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0099755017 (pbk) :

Subject(s):

Missing children -- Fiction

DDC classification:

823.914

Summary: On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen's life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable - as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past - and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephen's own childhood back into the present.

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Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1987.

Formerly CIP.

On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed. The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen's life and marriage. Memories and the present become inseparable - as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past - and time bends back on itself, dragging Stephen's own childhood back into the present.

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