04133cam a2200505 4500 277003150 TxAuBib 20161021120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385542081 0385542089 B01E2GZ30Y Amazon 050f6b4f-2920-49f5-b2b5-36eed956ae1f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2670938 OverDrive (Product ID) 549109 2670938 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McEwan, Ian. Nutshell [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 498kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 498kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. english novelists. literary fiction. english novelist. motherhood. Ian McEwan. infidelity. marriage. Nutshell. Fiction. London. mcewan. HTML:<p>Starred review from July 25, 2016<br /> McEwan’s latest novel is short, smart, and narrated by an unborn baby. The narrator describes himself upside down in his mother’s womb, arms crossed, doing slow motion somersaults, almost full-term, wondering about the future. His mother listens to the radio, audiobooks, and podcasts, so just from listening he has acquired knowledge of current events, music, literature, and history. From experience, he’s formed opinions about wine and human behavior. What he’s learned of the world has him using his umbilical cord as worry beads, but his greatest concern comes from overhearing his mother and her lover plotting to kill his father. The mother, Trudy, is separated from John, the father. John is overweight, suffers from psoriasis, and, perhaps most annoying for Trudy, loves to recite poetry. Trudy’s lover, Claude, is a libidinous real estate developer who covets both John’s wife and their highly marketable London home. Claude also happens to be John’s brother. Echoes of <em>Hamlet</em> resound in the plans for fratricide, a ghost, and the baby’s contemplation of shuffling off his mortal coil. The murder plot structures the novel as a crime caper, McEwan-style—that is, laced with linguistic legerdemain, cultural references, and insights into human ingenuity and pettiness. Packed with humor and tinged with suspense, this gem resembles a sonnet the narrator recalls hearing his father recite: brief, dense, bitter, suggestive of unrequited and unmanageable longing, surprising, and surprisingly affecting. <em>150,000-copy announced first printing.</em></p>. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:<b>New from the bestselling author of <i>Atonement</i> and <i>The Children Act</i></b><br /> Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home—a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse—but John's not there. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.<br /> Told from a perspective unlike any other, <i>Nutshell</i> is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers.<br /> <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-10-20 23:00:02. http://www.ntexlibrariesonthego.org/ContentDetails.htm?ID=050f6b4f-2920-49f5-b2b5-36eed956ae1f http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=050f6b4f-2920-49f5-b2b5-36eed956ae1f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=050f6b4f-2920-49f5-b2b5-36eed956ae1f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=050f6b4f-2920-49f5-b2b5-36eed956ae1f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMLR