Innocence is teamed with cynicism in this modern parable that treads the dark and light sides of human nature. Working with simple, uncluttered panels animated by characters’ expressions and atmospheric landscapes, this is cartoon and magical realism that is both heartbreaking and heart-warming. Lemire writes with his pen first, using pictures to convey mood and emotion, but he also carves out words and dialogue when the drama most requires it.
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There’s even a touch of The Village and Planet Of The Apes thrown in for good measure.Īfter the critical success of its earlier future saga, Y: The Last Man, Vertigo has come up trumps with a more surreal, disturbing, but essentially still optimistic tale. A tense and enthralling historical thriller in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin. Sweet Tooth has been compared to the writings of Cormac McCarthy, especially The Road, with its bleak post-apocalyptic take on survival, but there are also overtones of Harlan Ellison’s A Boy And His Dog and David Lynch’s surrealist visions. Any hints that the experience could bring about a change of heart in Jeppard are left for future issues to reveal. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards where McEwan was also named Reader's Digest Author of the Year.By the end, Jeppard’s motives remain disturbingly dark as arrival at The Preserve proves to be less a paradise and more a prison. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998.
He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
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