false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604786m/6871.jpg 6871 23 Set in late 1980s Europe at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, <b>Black Dogs</b> is the intimate story of the crumbling of a marriage, as witnessed by an outsider. Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine, whose union and estrangement began almost simultaneously. Seeking to comprehend how their deep love could be defeated by ideological differences Bernard and June cannot reconcile, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs, only to be led back again and again to one terrifying encouner forty years earlier--a moment that, for June, was as devastating and irreversible in its consequences as the changes sweeping Europe in Jeremy's own time. In a finely crafted, compelling examination of evil and grace, Ian McEwan weaves the sinister reality of civiliation's darkest moods--its black dogs--with the tensions that both create love and destroy it. 2493679 1992 Black Dogs total:1011|5:135|4:360|3:366|2:125|1:25| 1011 3488 1515 109 3 2 false true Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 08:26:37 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 24 07:56:08 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 10:07:44 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 09:06:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 true false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 10:53:58 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 10:57:10 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 08 17:14:39 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 21:10:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 07:08:38 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 17:22:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 13:45:54 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 18:16:03 -0800 2009 Black Dogs because the critics on Slate's Culture Gabfest were discussing the book to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The middle portion of the novel is set in Berlin on November 9, 1989, during the celebratory hours after East Germany eased travel restr...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 11:48:46 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 20:39:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 16:15:11 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 16:20:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 19:11:06 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 21:05:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 26 08:56:20 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 08:59:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Nov 10 11:44:42 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 12:14:53 -0800 2008 The Cement Garden, I've really become enamored ...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 01:47:20 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 01:59:02 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 04:01:55 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 10:36:17 -0700 2008
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