The Cockroach
Ian McEwan THE COCKROACH Ian McEwan is the bestselling author of eighteen books, including the novels Machines Like Me ; Nutshell ; The Children Act ; Sweet Tooth ; Solar , winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; On Chesil Beach ; Saturday ; Atonement , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award; The Comfort of Strangers and Black Dogs , both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Amsterdam, winner of the Booker Prize; and The Child in Time , winner of the Whitbread Award; as well as the story collections First Love , Last Rites , winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and In Between the Sheets . www.ianmcewan.com ALSO BY IAN MCEWAN First Love, Last Rites In Between the Sheets The Cement Garden The Comfort of Strangers The Child in Time The Innocent Black Dogs The Daydreamer Enduring Love Amsterdam Atonement Saturday On Chesil Beach Solar Sweet Tooth The Children Act Nutshell Machines Like Me AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL, OCTOBER 2019 Copyright © 2019 by Ian McEwan All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in paperback in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2019. Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The quotation on this page is from the song ‘Walking Back to Happiness’, with lyrics by Michael Hawker and John Francis Schroeder.
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