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Barcode30293102323917
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call NoF McEw
TitleWhat we can know : a novel / Ian McEwan.
AuthorMcEwan, Ian, author.
CollectionF
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102323917F McEw11/25/2025 In Processing 

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780593804735 (ebook)
International Standard Book Number 0593804724 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 9780593804728 (hardcover)
Personal Name McEwan, Ian, author.
Title Statement What we can know : a novel / Ian McEwan.
Edition Statement First hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Physical Description 303 pages ; 25 cm.
General Note "A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
Summary, Etc. 2014 : At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife's birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, 'A Corona for Vivien'. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery. 2119 : Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, 'A Corona for Vivian'. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem's discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well. What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Scholars Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Disasters Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Poets Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Climatic changes Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term English poetry Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term England Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Alternative histories (Fiction)
Index Term-Genre/Form Science fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.
Index Term-Genre/Form Apocalyptic fiction.

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