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Ian McEwan's first published work, a collection of short stories called 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 and Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize. His most recent novel is Solar. He lives in Oxford.
A science writer is involved in a ballooning accident and becomes the object of obsession for an evangelical Christian. The usual McEwan themes - rationalism versus religion, the ambivalence of male desire, what the human body looks like when subjected to brutal violence - are explored in his customary cool prose although the dark menace of his greatest work is missing here. (Kirkus UK)
