Who wrote the novel 'The Cement Garden'?
"stage by FallOut Theatre in Cambridge. A developed version of this adaption opened in London at The Vaults, Waterloo, starring George MacKay and Ruby Bentall in January 2014. ""The Cement Garden"" was included in the book ""Horror: Another 100 Best Books"" (2005) by Stephen Jones. The Cement Garden The Cement Garden is a 1978 novel by Ian McEwan. It was adapted into a 1993 film of the same name by Andrew Birkin, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson. In ""The Cement Garden"", the father of four children dies. Soon after, the children's mother dies as well. In order to avoid"
"Cement (novel) Cement (Russian: ""Цемент"") is a Russian novel by Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958). Published in 1925, the book is arguably the first in Soviet Socialist Realist literature to depict the struggles of post-Revolutionary reconstruction in the Soviet Union. The protagonist, Gleb Chumalov, is a returning Red Army soldier hero who after the Russian Civil War comes back to a hometown in painful transition and to its cement factory being reorganized for the massive new Soviet effort. His wife, Dasha, plays the role of the Soviet ""new woman,"" and Gleb finds he cannot easily pick up the threads of their old"
"his work. McEwan had included a brief note at the end of ""Atonement"", referring to Andrews's autobiography, among several other works. The incident recalled critical controversy over his debut novel ""The Cement Garden"", key elements of the plot of which closely mirrored some of those of ""Our Mother's House"", a 1963 novel by British author Julian Gloag, which had also been made into a film. McEwan denied charges of plagiarism, claiming he was unaware of the earlier work. Writing in ""The Guardian"" in November 2006, a month after Andrews' death, McEwan professed innocence of plagiarism while acknowledging his debt to"
"hold his own against their innocent blue eyes”. Dirk Bogarde received a BAFTA nomination and described working on the project as one of happiest experiences of his career. Child star Mark Lester went on to achieve huge fame a year later with the titular role in the film musical ""Oliver!"" When Ian McEwan’s ""The Cement Garden"" was published in 1978, some reviewers noted remarkable similarities between that novel and ""Our Mother’s House"", and this issue resurfaced in 2006 when McEwan was again accused of copying passages from Lucilla Andrews’s memoir ""No Time for Romance"" – for the wartime hospital sections"
"""The Cement Garden"" (1978) and ""Enduring Love"" (1997), which was made into a film. In 1998 McEwan won the Man Booker Prize with ""Amsterdam"", while ""Atonement"" (2001) was made into an Oscar-winning film. McEwan was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2011. Zadie Smith's (born 1975) Whitbread Book Award winning novel ""White Teeth"" (2000), mixes pathos and humour, focusing on the later lives of two war time friends in London. Julian Barnes (born 1946) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book ""The Sense of an Ending"", while three of his earlier books had"
"The Ash Garden The Ash Garden is a novel written by Canadian author Dennis Bock and published in 2001. It is Bock's first novel, following the 1998 release of ""Olympia"", a collection of short stories. ""The Ash Garden"" follows the stories of three main characters affected by World War II: Hiroshima bombing victim Emiko, German nuclear physicist Anton Böll, and Austrian-Jewish refugee Sophie Böll. The narrative is non-linear, jumping between different times and places, and the point of view alternates between the characters; Emiko's story being written in the first person while Anton and Sophie's stories are written in the"
"effort"". The Ash Garden The Ash Garden is a novel written by Canadian author Dennis Bock and published in 2001. It is Bock's first novel, following the 1998 release of ""Olympia"", a collection of short stories. ""The Ash Garden"" follows the stories of three main characters affected by World War II: Hiroshima bombing victim Emiko, German nuclear physicist Anton Böll, and Austrian-Jewish refugee Sophie Böll. The narrative is non-linear, jumping between different times and places, and the point of view alternates between the characters; Emiko's story being written in the first person while Anton and Sophie's stories are written in"
"sex. A thudding noise can be heard below, and their sister Sue comes and informs them that Derek is smashing up the concrete coffin. The three begin to talk, remembering their mother. After a while, police lights illuminate the room through the bedroom window. A quote from the book can be heard in the opening of Madonna's song ""What It Feels Like for a Girl"". ""The Cement Garden"" was adapted into a film of the same name by Andrew Birkin in 1993, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Andrew Robertson. In March 2008, it was adapted for the first time for the"
"1972 and ""Nights at the Circus"" 1984. Margaret Drabble (born 1939) is a novelist, biographer and critic, who published from the 1960s into the 21st century. Her older sister, A. S. Byatt (born 1936) is best known for ""Possession"" published in 1990. Martin Amis (born 1949) is one of the most prominent of contemporary British novelists. His best-known novels are ""Money"" (1984) and ""London Fields"" (1989). Pat Barker (born 1943) has won many awards for her fiction. English novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (born 1948) is another of contemporary Britain's most highly regarded writers. His works include ""The Cement Garden"""
"Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, ""The Times"" featured him on their list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"" and ""The Daily Telegraph"" ranked him number 19 in their list of the ""100 most powerful people in British culture"". McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories. ""The Cement Garden"" (1978) and ""The Comfort of Strangers"" (1981), his first two novels, earned him the nickname ""Ian Macabre"". These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s. His novel ""Enduring Love"""
"he wrote and directed ""Burning Secret"", based on the novel by Stefan Zweig, which won two awards at the 1989 Venice Film Festival, as well as the Young Jury prize for Best Film at the Brussels Film Festival. In 1993, Birkin wrote and directed ""The Cement Garden"", based on the novel by Ian McEwan, for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as Best Film at several film festivals, including Dinard, Fort Lauderdale, and Birmingham. In 1998 he collaborated with Luc Besson on the script of """", and in 2004 co-wrote"
"of his novel ""Atonement"". ""The Cement Garden"" and ""Our Mother’s House"" do share common themes and plot strands. Both involve a group of mixed-aged children who conceal their mother’s death and inter her corpse within the family home, and then attempt to carry on normally as best they can. In both works there is a Gothic atmosphere of increasing strangeness, decay and unraveling, which is evocative of the children-only world of ""Lord of the Flies"". And both plots reach their denouements through the arrival of older male characters who figure out what is really going on. McEwan himself denied the"
"for release in September 2015. The Chemical Garden Trilogy The Internment Chronicles The Glass Spare Duology Other Work Lauren DeStefano Lauren DeStefano is an American young adult author. She is best known for the Chemical Garden series of novels and her gallows humor. DeStefano was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and has an English degree from Albertus Magnus College. Her first book, Wither, a dystopian young adult novel, was published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster. Wither is the first book in The Chemical Garden Trilogy, and the second novel, ""Fever"", debuted at No. 6 on the New York Times"
"Joanne Greenberg Joanne Greenberg (born September 24, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author best known for the bestselling novel ""I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"", written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It was adapted into a 1977 movie and a 2004 play of the same name. She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the Jewish Book Council of America award in 1963 for her novel ""The King's Persons"", which was about the massacre of the Jewish population of York at York Castle in 1190. She was a professor"
"William Kennedy (author) William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his novel ""Ironweed"". Many of his novels feature the interactions of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family in Albany, New York. The novels make use of incidents from the city's history as well as the supernatural. Kennedy's works include ""The Ink Truck"" (1969), ""Legs"" (1975), ""Billy Phelan's Greatest Game"" (1978), ""Ironweed"" (1983), ""Roscoe"" (2002) and ""Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes"" (2011). One reviewer said of ""Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes"" that it was ""written with such"
"met and married Daisy (Dana) Sosa. They have three children. Kennedy resides in Averill Park, New York, a hamlet about 16 miles east of Albany. William Kennedy (author) William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his novel ""Ironweed"". Many of his novels feature the interactions of members of the fictional Irish-American Phelan family in Albany, New York. The novels make use of incidents from the city's history as well as the supernatural. Kennedy's works include ""The Ink Truck"" (1969), ""Legs"" (1975), ""Billy Phelan's Greatest Game"" (1978), ""Ironweed"""
"reviewer compares to the disordered psychological world of Hitchcock’s ""Spellbound"", with the plot convolutions and red herrings of Agatha Christie. As in Gloag’s earlier works, childhood traumas and psychiatric intervention mix with crime and sexual intrigues in a complex layered narrative. In his ""Spectator"" review, A. N. Wilson describes ""Lost and Found"" as Julian Gloag’s “Sweet Revenge” for the perceived plagiarism of ""Our Mother’s House"" by Ian McEwan in ""The Cement Garden"". Set entirely in France, the story features Paul Molphey, a schoolteacher and writer of roughly Gloag's age. As a young man, Paul writes a novel and sends it"
"Lauren DeStefano Lauren DeStefano is an American young adult author. She is best known for the Chemical Garden series of novels and her gallows humor. DeStefano was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and has an English degree from Albertus Magnus College. Her first book, Wither, a dystopian young adult novel, was published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster. Wither is the first book in The Chemical Garden Trilogy, and the second novel, ""Fever"", debuted at No. 6 on the New York Times bestseller list in March 2012. The third and final book, ""Sever"", was released on February 12, 2013. The"
"The Painted Garden The Painted Garden is a children's novel by British author Noel Streatfeild. It was first published in serial form in 1948, and as a book (subtitled ""The Story of a Holiday in Hollywood"") in 1949. The abridged US edition was entitled Movie Shoes. The novel is now out of print, the most recent publication being the 2000 Collins paperback. Crabby Jane Winter is furious when her family plans to spend the winter in California, leaving her dog in London. However, her father really needs a holiday to get over his writer's block. In California, Jane meets a"
"The Child Garden The Child Garden is a 1989 science fiction novel by Geoff Ryman. It won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1990. The novel is structured as two books with a brief introduction. The first book was originally published in two parts as ""Love Sickness"" in the Summer and Autumn 1987 editions of the British science fiction magazine ""Interzone"". It won the 1988 BFSA Award and placed 8th in the Locus Poll Award for Best Novella. In a future semitropical England cancer has been cured, but, as a result, the"
"for screen by Andrew Birkin, who wrote and directed ""The Cement Garden"" (based on the novel by Ian McEwan), for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2010, Stuart published her second novel, ""Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo"". It tells of a Beefeater whose marriage is in tatters following the loss of his son. Owner of the oldest tortoise in the world, Balthazar learns to love again by caring for the inhabitants of the Tower’s newly installed menagerie. It was published as ""The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise"""
"is deserted, stripped bare by the starving citizens. Nearly everyone has abandoned the Revolution, and icons of the revolution collect dust, neglected. Only a few have remained loyal to the Revolutionary ideals. These few serve as examples of the ideal socialist citizen, but there are too few of them and a socialist state requires the masses to operate the machine of the socialist cause. Cement (novel) Cement (Russian: ""Цемент"") is a Russian novel by Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958). Published in 1925, the book is arguably the first in Soviet Socialist Realist literature to depict the struggles of post-Revolutionary reconstruction in the"
"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (novel) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It served as the basis for a film in 1977 and a play in 2004. The character of Dr. Fried is based closely on Greenberg's real doctor Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and the hospital on Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland. While at Chestnut Lodge, Greenberg described a fantasy world called Yr to her doctors, quoting poetry in the Yri language. However, some of Greenberg's doctors felt that this was not a"
"which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. He achieved notoriety in 1979 when the BBC suspended production of his play ""Solid Geometry"" because of its supposed obscenity. His second collection of short stories, ""In Between the Sheets"", was published in 1978. ""The Cement Garden"" (1978) and ""The Comfort of Strangers"" (1981) were his two earliest novels, both of which were adapted into films. The nature of these works caused him to be nicknamed ""Ian Macabre"". These were followed by McEwan's first book for children, ""Rose Blanche"" (1985), and a return to literary fiction for ""The Child in Time"" (1987),"
"The Bone Garden The Bone Garden is a 2007 novel written by Tess Gerritsen, loosely part of the Jane Rizzoli / Maura Isles series. The book delves into Boston's past (1830), with Maura Isles playing a cameo role in present-day Boston. In the present, recently divorced 38-year-old Julia Hamill, trying to plant a garden for her newly purchased rural Massachusetts home finds a female skull buried in the rocky soil. She contacts medical examiner Maura Isles who finds it scarred with the marks of murder but can discover no more due to the skull's age. In the past, Boston in"
"of California at Berkeley. Earl Thompson (author) Earl Thompson (May 24, 1931 – November 9, 1978) was a leading American writer of naturalist prose. Nominated for the National Book Award for ""A Garden of Sand"" and chosen by the Book of the Month Club for ""Tattoo"", Thompson died suddenly at the peak of his success, having published just three novels—the fourth ""The Devil to Pay"", was published posthumously. Thompson was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1931. His first novel ""A Garden of Sand"" describes the events of his birth and early childhood in vivid detail. ""Tattoo"" picks up where his"
"The Torture Garden The Torture Garden () is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. The novel is dedicated: ""To the priests, the soldiers, the judges, to those people who educate, instruct and govern men, I dedicate these pages of Murder and Blood."" Published at the height of the Dreyfus affair, Mirbeau’s novel is a loosely assembled reworking of texts composed at different eras, featuring different styles, and showcasing different characters. Beginning with material stemming from articles on the 'Law of Murder' discussed in the"
"Rosemary Manning Rosemary Joy Manning (b. Weymouth, Dorset 9 December 1911 – 5 April 1988, Tunbridge Wells) was a British author of both adult and children's books. Her best-known novel is ""The Chinese Garden"", considered by some to be an important lesbian book. She was also well known for her popular ""Dragon"" children's series. She was also known by the pseudonyms Sarah Davys and Mary Voyle. Manning was born in 1911 to Thomas and Mary in Weymouth. Her father was a doctor but he had to resign following a scandal. Manning was sent to a boarding school in Devon; her"
"“fascinating sub-text” to the real-life story of the success of ""The Cement Garden"". He also praises the writing generally, citing the marvelous descriptions of French life. In 2013 Editions Autrement published a new French-language version under the title ""L'imposteur"" (""The Impostor""). Murder is the theme once again in ""Blood For Blood"" (1985), where a prominent barrister, Vivian Winter, is stabbed to death in his flat. Unsuccessful writer Ivor Speke turns detective and uncovers a web of intrigue surrounding Winter's former clients. Patterns emerge and the mystery deepens when Speke delves into the details of Winter's will. ""New York Times"" reviewer"
"missing money, Holt's tempting wife Lyndel (Sherilyn Fenn), dead police officers are implicated in the events. Cement (film) Cement is a 2000 American thriller crime drama film directed by Adrian Pasdar and written by Justin Monjo. The film was shot in Los Angeles, California and was Pasdar's first film as director. Los Angeles vice detectives Bill Holt (Chris Penn) and Nin (Jeffrey Wright) have entered the gangster and drug scenes and have allied with drug kingpin Truman Rickhardt (Henry Czerny). As he tries to stop Holt, Nin narrates the events that led Holt to torture Truman’s brother Sean (Anthony DeSando)"
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."
"Cement (film) Cement is a 2000 American thriller crime drama film directed by Adrian Pasdar and written by Justin Monjo. The film was shot in Los Angeles, California and was Pasdar's first film as director. Los Angeles vice detectives Bill Holt (Chris Penn) and Nin (Jeffrey Wright) have entered the gangster and drug scenes and have allied with drug kingpin Truman Rickhardt (Henry Czerny). As he tries to stop Holt, Nin narrates the events that led Holt to torture Truman’s brother Sean (Anthony DeSando) by chaining him inside an iron box that's slowly filling with cement. Cops on the take,"
"burial place for Jane's parents and the birthplace of Jane herself. Also closely associated with the city is Victorian poet and novelist Isabella Banks, most famed for her 1876 novel ""The Manchester Man"". Anglo-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in the city's Cheetham Hill district in 1849, and wrote much of her classic children's novel ""The Secret Garden"" while visiting nearby Salford's Buile Hill Park. Anthony Burgess is among the 20th century writers who made Manchester their home, he wrote the dystopian satire ""A Clockwork Orange"" in 1962. Dame Carol Ann Duffy, the current Poet Laureate, moved to the"