Title: The Cockroach
Title Record # 2624566
Author: Ian McEwan
Date: 2019-09-27
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Current Tags: satire (1), kafkaesque (1), politics (1), economics (1) Add Tags
Author: Ian McEwan
Date: 2019-09-27
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Synopsis: Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain – and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy.
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature ...
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Cockroach | 2019-09-27 | Ian McEwan | Jonathan Cape | 978-1-5291-1292-4 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
100 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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The Cockroach | 2019-10-00 | Ian McEwan | Jonathan Cape | 978-1-5291-1292-4 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
[10]+ 100 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
chap | Alamy | |
The Cockroach | 2019-10-01 | Ian McEwan | Anchor Books | 978-0-593-08243-0 | $8.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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The Cockroach | 2019-10-08 | Ian McEwan | Anchor Books | 978-0-593-08242-3 | $11.00?$: US dollar |
112 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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Die Kakerlake | 2019-11-27 | Ian McEwan | Diogenes | 978-3-257-07132-0 | €19.00?€: Euro |
133 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Carlos Rojas (artist) | |
Die Kakerlake | 2019-11-27 | Ian McEwan | Diogenes | 978-3-257-61034-5 | €15.99?€: Euro |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
chap | Carlos Rojas (artist) |
Reviews
- Review [German] by Britta Heidemann (2019) in Neue Ruhr Zeitung, 28. November 2019 , reprinted in:
- [German] Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 28. November 2019 (2019)