Black Dogs
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Light glue residue on endpapers.
A haunting work of literary fiction, Black Dogs chronicles the fractured relationship between Bernard and June Tremaine through the eyes of their son-in-law, Jeremy, who is piecing together the story of their lives decades after a pivotal encounter in post-war France. Ian McEwan constructs a meditation on faith, reason, and the enduring scars of history, using the couple's ideological estrangement — Bernard's committed rationalism against June's turn toward mysticism — as a lens through which to examine the great moral catastrophes of the twentieth century. The novel's atmosphere is one of quiet dread and intellectual intensity, anchored by a central, unforgettable episode in which June confronts two menacing black dogs on a remote road in the Languedoc, an event that comes to define the rest of her life. McEwan argues, with characteristic precision and psychological depth, that the darkness humans encounter — whether political, spiritual, or personal — cannot be fully explained by either science or faith alone. Spare, luminous, and deeply unsettling, Black Dogs stands as one of McEwan's most philosophically ambitious works.
Author: Ian Mcewan
Format: Hardback
Published: 1992, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Light glue residue on endpapers.
A haunting work of literary fiction, Black Dogs chronicles the fractured relationship between Bernard and June Tremaine through the eyes of their son-in-law, Jeremy, who is piecing together the story of their lives decades after a pivotal encounter in post-war France. Ian McEwan constructs a meditation on faith, reason, and the enduring scars of history, using the couple's ideological estrangement — Bernard's committed rationalism against June's turn toward mysticism — as a lens through which to examine the great moral catastrophes of the twentieth century. The novel's atmosphere is one of quiet dread and intellectual intensity, anchored by a central, unforgettable episode in which June confronts two menacing black dogs on a remote road in the Languedoc, an event that comes to define the rest of her life. McEwan argues, with characteristic precision and psychological depth, that the darkness humans encounter — whether political, spiritual, or personal — cannot be fully explained by either science or faith alone. Spare, luminous, and deeply unsettling, Black Dogs stands as one of McEwan's most philosophically ambitious works.