Ian McEwan

Lessons -- Ian McEwan, Hardcover

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From the best-selling author of Atonement and Saturday comes the epic and intimate story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic, Roland Baines sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it.

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Two thousand miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.

Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence. As the radiation from Chernobyl spreads across Europe, he begins a search for answers that looks deep into his family history and will last for the rest of his life.

Haunted by lost opportunities, Roland seeks solace through every possible means--music, literature, friends, sex, politics, and, finally, love cut tragically short, then love ultimately redeemed. His journey raises important questions for us all. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without causing damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from the traumas of the past?

Epic, mesmerizing, and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times--a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one man's lifetime.

Author: Ian McEwan
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780593535202

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2022 pg. 5
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 07/25/2022
Booklist 08/01/2022 pg. 21

Product Tags:

Coming of Age, Family Life, Fiction, Fiction - General, Hardcover, Ian McEwan, Knopf Publishing Group, Literary, Men

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