THE DAYDREAMER
A delightful literary foray for adults and children alike, from the inexhaustible imagination of the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement.
In these seven exquisitely interlinked episodes, the grown-up protagonist Peter Fortune reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses, and adventures of his childhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality, Peter experiences fantastical transformations: he swaps bodies with the wise old family cat; exchanges existences with a cranky infant; encounters a very bad doll who has come to life and is out for revenge; and rummages through a kitchen drawer filled with useless objects to discover some not-so-useless cream that actually makes people vanish. Finally, he wakes up as an eleven-year-old inside a grown-up body and embarks on the truly fantastic adventure of falling in love. Moving, dreamlike, and extraordinary, The Daydreamer marks yet another imaginative departure for Ian McEwan.
IAN MCEWAN
Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award 1987 and the Prix Fémina Etranger 1993 for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award 2002 , National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award 2003 , Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction 2003 , and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel 2004 . He was awarded a CBE in 2000. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards where McEwan was also named Reader's Digest Author of the Year.
Edad recomendada: A partir de 12 años.
MCEWAN IAN
Ian Russell McEwan nació el 21 de junio de 1948 en Aldershot, Inglaterra, hijo de David McEwan y Rose Lilian Violet Moore. Pasó parte de su infancia en Asia Oriental, Alemania y el norte de África debido al destino militar de su padre. A los doce años regresó a Inglaterra y estudió en Woolverstone Hall School, luego en la Universidad de Sussex, donde obtuvo un B.A. en Literatura Inglesa, y en la Universidad de Anglia del Este, donde completó un M.A. en Escritura Creativa. Publicó su primera colección de relatos en 1975 y desde entonces ha escrito novelas, guiones y obras teatrales. Está casado con Annalena McAfee desde 1997 y tiene dos hijos.
