Full name: Black Dogs: A Novel

Author: Ian McEwan Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Contemporary Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385494328 0385494327

Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Black Dogs is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and June cannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs, only to be led back again and again to one terrifying encouner forty years earlier--a moment that, for June, was as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy's own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination of evil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civiliation's darkest moods--its black dogs--with the tensions that both create love and destroy it. Similar books: Saturday by Ian McEwan Amsterdam by Ian McEwan The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch The Child in Time by Ian McEwan Still Life by A. S. Byatt Under the Net by Iris Murdoch Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell The Bell by Iris Murdoch Waterland by Graham Swift The Information by Martin Amis Coming Up for Air by George Orwell Enduring Love by Ian McEwan Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick