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Innocent : A Novel by Ian McEwan (1998, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100385494335

ISBN-139780385494335

eBay Product ID (ePID)701158

Product Key Features

Book TitleInnocent : a Novel

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

TopicThrillers / Espionage, Thrillers / Historical, Romance / General, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorIan McEwan

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Never less than wholly entertaining." The Wall Street Journal "Deft, taut fiction. . . . Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master's best." Time "So exhaustively suspenseful that it should be devoured at one sitting. . . . McEwan fuses a spy-novel plot with themes as venerable as the myth of Adam and Eve." Newsweek "Has the spooky, crooked-angled, danger-around-every-corner feeling of a Carol Reid film. It reminded me often of The Third Man and that is no mean feat." Jonathan Carroll, The Washington Post Book World "Powerful and disturbing . . . a tour de force." The New York Times, "Never less than wholly entertaining." -- The Wall Street Journal "Deft, taut fiction.... Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master's best." -- Time "So exhaustively suspenseful that it should be devoured at one sitting.... McEwan fuses a spy-novel plot with themes as venerable as the myth of Adam and Eve." -- Newsweek "Has the spooky, crooked-angled, danger-around-every-corner feeling of a Carol Reid film. It reminded me often of The Third Man and that is no mean feat." --Jonathan Carroll, The Washington Post Book World "Powerful and disturbing ... a tour de force." -- The New York Times, "Never less than wholly entertaining." - The Wall Street Journal "Deft, taut fiction. . . . Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master's best." - Time "So exhaustively suspenseful that it should be devoured at one sitting. . . . McEwan fuses a spy-novel plot with themes as venerable as the myth of Adam and Eve." - Newsweek "Has the spooky, crooked-angled, danger-around-every-corner feeling of a Carol Reid film. It reminded me often of The Third Man and that is no mean feat." -Jonathan Carroll, The Washington Post Book World "Powerful and disturbing . . . a tour de force." - The New York Times, "Never less than wholly entertaining." -The Wall Street Journal "Deft, taut fiction. . . . Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master's best." -Time "So exhaustively suspenseful that it should be devoured at one sitting. . . . McEwan fuses a spy-novel plot with themes as venerable as the myth of Adam and Eve." -Newsweek "Has the spooky, crooked-angled, danger-around-every-corner feeling of a Carol Reid film. It reminded me often ofThe Third Manand that is no mean feat." -Jonathan Carroll,The Washington Post Book World "Powerful and disturbing . . . a tour de force." -The New York Times, "Works as a time bob, waiting to go off... A tour de force of horror and philosophical suspense." -- The New York Times "So exhaustively suspenseful...it should be devoured at one sitting." -- Newsweek "A gripping, absolutely unique story of love and suspense that you won't forget." -- Joseph Wambaugh "McEwan...a breathtaking master...has written a blueprint for the future of the genre." -- Time, "Never less than wholly entertaining." -The Wall Street Journal "Deft, taut fiction. . . . Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master's best." -Time "So exhaustively suspenseful that it should be devoured at one sitting. . . . McEwan fuses a spy-novel plot with themes as venerable as the myth of Adam and Eve." -Newsweek "Has the spooky, crooked-angled, danger-around-every-corner feeling of a Carol Reid film. It reminded me often of The Third Man and that is no mean feat." -Jonathan Carroll, The Washington Post Book World "Powerful and disturbing . . . a tour de force." -The New York Times, "Never less than wholly entertaining." -- The Wall Street Journal "Deft, taut fiction. . . . Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master's best." -- Time "So exhaustively suspenseful that it should be devoured at one sitting. . . . McEwan fuses a spy-novel plot with themes as venerable as the myth of Adam and Eve." -- Newsweek "Has the spooky, crooked-angled, danger-around-every-corner feeling of a Carol Reid film. It reminded me often of The Third Man and that is no mean feat." --Jonathan Carroll, The Washington Post Book World "Powerful and disturbing . . . a tour de force." -- The New York Times

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SynopsisA member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep i n this "wholly entertaining" work ( The Wall Street Journal ) from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham's intelligence work--tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow--offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. His relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening--a night when Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed., A member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep in this masterful work from the author of Atonement . Twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham's intelligence work--tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow--offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. His relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening--a night when Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed., A member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep in this "wholly entertaining" work ( The Wall Street Journal ) from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham's intelligence work--tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow--offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. His relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening--a night when Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.

LC Classification NumberPR6015.I3