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The Cement Garden is a 1993 British drama film written and directed by Andrew Birkin. [4] It is based on the 1978 novel written by Ian McEwan . [ 4 ] It was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival , where Birkin won the Silver Bear for Best Director .
[10] The Cement Garden is David Aaronovitch's favorite McEwan novel. [11] Eileen Battersby of The Irish Times called the book "shocking" and placed it fifth along with The Comfort of Strangers (1981) in her list of recommended books by the author. [12] It was also ranked one of the author's five essential books by Book Marks in 2019. [13]
Ian Russell McEwan CH CBE FRSA FRSL (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter.In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
In the London Review of Books, Christopher Ricks wrote that "McEwan’s tale is as economical as a shudder" and discussed the alarm of English critic John Ruskin about the ubiquity of death in modern novels, arguing that “the cutting force of the story is in its laying bare how ineradicable is this shock that it should be the mostly ...
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The accident, which left the school bus on its side, unfolded around 2 p.m. on State Highway 21 in Bastrop County, Texas, northeast of Austin, the state capital, police and fire officials said.
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