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The Child in Time

Editions
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1987 (220 p., ISBN: 022402499X).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987 (263 p., ISBN: 0395429129).

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1987 (263 p., ISBN: 0886191920).

Het kind in de tijd (Dutch / Trans. by Eva Wolff). Amsterdam: M. Muntinga, 1987 (313 p., ISBN: 9041700080).

London: Picador, 1988 (220 p., ISBN: 0330304062).

New York: Penguin Books, 1988 (263 p., ISBN: 0140112464).

Babino nel tempo (Italian). Torino: Einaudi, 1988 (215 p., ISBN: 8806113658).

L'enfant volé (French / Trans. by Josée Strawson). Paris: Gallimard, 1993 (298 p., ISBN: 2070732916).

Oxford: Isis Publishing, 1994 (299 p., ISBN: 1856953424).

Jikan no naka no kodomo (Japanese / Trans. by Yasushi Mano). Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, 1995 (314 p., ISBN: 4120024784).

Oxford: Heinemann, 1996 (230 p., ISBN: 0435124501).

London: Vintage, 1997 (220 p., ISBN: 0099755017).

New York: Anchor Books, 1999 (263 p., ISBN: 0385497520).

(Audio / Read by Nathaniel Parker). Bath, England/Hampton, NH: Chivers Audio Books, 1999 (8 cassettes, 8 hr., 15 min. / ISBN: 0754003469).

Niños en el tiempo (Spanish). Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1999 (255 p., ISBN: 8433966383).

Ditia vo vremeni (Russian). Moskva: Agraf, 2000 (329 p., ISBN: 5778401027).


Reviews and Criticism
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Quinn, Mary Ellen. 'Untitled', Booklist, 1 September 1987: 28.

Neve, Michael, 'Possible Futures', Times Literary Supplement, 4 September 1987: 947.

Locke, Richard. 'Shades of Dickens and Woolf', The Wall Street Journal, 15 September 1987: 30.

Cooke, Judy, 'Time Stands Still', The Listener, 17 September 1987: 24.

Tonkin, Boyd. 'In at the Birth', New Statesman, 18 September 1987: 28.

Smoodin, Roberta. 'The Theft of a Child and the Gift of Time', Los Angeles Times Book Review, 20 September 1987: 19.

Sheppard, R. Z. 'Heartbeats', Time, 21 September 1987: 76.

Goldstein, Rebecca, 'He Turned Around and She Was Gone', New York Times Book Review, 45:41, 11 October 1987: 9.

Powers, John, 'Natural Bonds', The Nation, 245:14, 31 October 1987: 491-492.

Mantel, Hilary, 'Frozen Time', London Magazine, 27:9-10, December 1987/January 1988: 134-135.

Podhoretz, John. 'Book Reviews', American Spectator, 21:2, February 1988: 45-46.

Annan, Gabriele, 'Worriers', New York Review of Books, 35:1, 4 February 1988: 17-19.

Bemrose, John, 'A Welcome Literary Invasion', Maclean's, 101:18, 25 April 1988: 51-52.

Brownjohn, Alan, Encounter, 70, April 1988: 57.

Neri, Michele. 'Perche non ho rivelato il sesso del primo ministro', La Stampa: Tuttolibri, 14:613, 6 August 1988: 4.

' Ian McEwan: Standing Up for the Sisters', A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s, D. J. Taylor, (Bloomsbury, London, 1989): 55-59.

Muchnick, Laurie. 'You Must Dismember This', Village Voice, 35:35, 28 August 1990: 102.

The Novel Today: A Critical Guide to the British Novel 1970-1989, Allan Massie, (Longman, London, 1990): 49-52.

Slay Jr., Jack, 'Vandalizing Time: Ian McEwan's The Child in Time', Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 35:4, Summer 1994: 205-218.

Edwards, Paul, 'Time, Romanticism, Modernism and Moderation in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time', English: The Journal of the English Association, 44:178, Spring 1995: 41-55.

Reynier, Christine, 'Rites de Passage dans The Child in Time d'Ian McEwan', Jeux d'ecriture: Le Roman britannique contemporain, edited by Marie-Francoise Cachin and Ann Grieve, 1995.

Wright, Derek. 'New Physics, Old Metaphysics: Quantum and Quotidian in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time', Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses, 10, 1997: 221-233.

Byrne, Michael. 'Time and the Child in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time', The Antigonish Review, 123, Autumn 2000: 101-107.

Takamoto, Takako. "The Child in Time ni okeru Futatsu no Jikan' ('Two Kinds of "Time" in The Child in Time'), New Perspective, 177, 2003: 45-57.


Study Resources

Study Resources are for the benefit of those wishing to discuss Ian McEwan's writing. Typically, the resources consist of questions or materials educators or book group leaders may wish to use to initiate such discussions. Some material may require Adobe Reader to view.

Child in Time (From teachit.co.uk)

Introductory Exercise (The opening of the novel)
http://www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/opening.pdf

Time Line Sequencing Activity (Put the events in chronological order)
http://www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/ctline2.pdf

Time Line Sequencing Activity (Teacher copy)
http://www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/ctline1.pdf

Chapter 3 (List of questions and quotations)
http://www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/chapter3.pdf

Chapter 7 (Cut out questions and activities)
http://www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/chapter7.pdf

Essay Questions (Eight total, with space to devise your own)
http://www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/ctqs.pdf

The Committee and The Handbook (Effective group activity that uses detailed prompts to explore the importance of the Committee and the Handbook in the novel)
http://www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/CThmil1.pdf

 
  
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