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The Daydreamer

Ian McEwan

A delightful literary foray for adults and children alike, from the inexhaustible imagination of the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement.

"As far-fetched and funny as anything by Roald Dahl." --Vogue

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Anchor Books
  • Publish Date: Jan 18th, 2000
  • Pages: 160
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.01in - 5.15in - 0.43in - 0.38lb
  • EAN: 9780385498050
  • Recommended age: 08-11
  • Categories: Action & Adventure - GeneralFantasy - General

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About the Author

IAN MCEWAN is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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Praise for this book

"Imaginative and sparkling, not a page should be missed." --San Diego Union-Tribune

"As far-fetched and funny as anything by Roald Dahl." --Vogue

"Combines wit and invention with a sense of the natural order being overturned." --The Washington Post Book World

"Peter's fantasy life is richer than anybody's since Walter Mitty." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Brilliant . . . the quality of imagination at play here is something special." --The Times Educational Supplement (London)