Ian McEwan

LYNN WELLS is Associate Professor of English, University of Regina, Canada. She has taught Ian McEwan's fiction at both undergraduate and graduate levels and is author of Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction (Rodopi 2003).

• General Editor's PrefacePrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsPART I: INTRODUCTIONTimelineIntroductionA Biographical ReadingPART II: MAJOR WORKSThe Cement Garden and The Comfort of StrangersThe Child in TimeThe Innocent and Black DogsEnduring LoveAmsterdam and On Chesil BeachAtonementSaturdayPART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTSAuthor InterviewOther WritingsCritical ReceptionFurther Reading and BibliographyIndex.

'A very intelligent and knowledgeable, but also highly accessible book, containing some of the best succinct readings of McEwan's fiction to date.'- Professor Peter Childs, University of Gloucestershire, UK