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      Black Dogs

      by Ian McEwan
      Published
      Jul 1992
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      Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this novel is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider—from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement.

      "Brilliant.... [A] meditation on ... the intoxications and the redemptive power of love." —The New Yorker

      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.

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      Sep 1993 Vintage ISBN13 9780394280196 ISBN10 0394280199
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      Jan 1994 Bantam ISBN13 9780553373677 ISBN10 0553373676
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      Sep 1998 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099277088 ISBN10 0099277085
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      Jan 1999 Anchor ISBN13 9780385494328 ISBN10 0385494327
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      First Edition Jul 1992 Random House (UK) ISBN13 9780224035729 ISBN10 022403572X
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      Oct 1992 Nan A. Talese ISBN13 9780385425414 ISBN10 0385425414
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      Oct 2005 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780007207060 ISBN10 0007207069
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      Feb 2011 Knopf ISBN13 9780307760234 ISBN10 0307760235
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      May 2003 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786251322 ISBN10 0786251328
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