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The Cement Garden by McEwan, Ian
- Bookseller: Booksmart
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 073759
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: As New
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0679750185
- ISBN 13: 9780679750185
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Place: New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date published: 1994
- Size: 5.25 x 8 x 0.5 inches
- Weight: 0.4 pounds
Description
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Anchor Books, 1994 Book is NEW; unread. BOOKSMART offers free domestic shipping (media mail) on orders of three or more books.. Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
trade paperback : Often used to indicate any paperback book that is somewhat larger than a mass-market paperback.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
As New : "the book is in the same immaculate condition in which it was published. There can be no defects, no missing pages, no library stamps, etc., and the dust jacket (if it was issued with one) must be perfect without any tears." Condition definition from AB Bookman's Weekly.
Book summary
McEwan's first novel is about a perverse family in which the children bury their mother in cement and the eldest son calmly deflowers his sister while another sibling looks on. Many of the themes of McEwan's fiction are present here: the grotesque black comedy, the pervasiveness of evil, the twisted eroticism, and the importance of the mundane details of everyday life.
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