Lessons

964 Pages·2022·4.795 MB·English

by  Ian McEwan

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2022 by Ian McEwan
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin
Random House LLC, New York. Simultaneously published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan
Cape, an imprint of Vintage, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2022.
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Ian McEwan is an unlimited company no 7473219 registered in England and Wales.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: McEwan, Ian, author.
Title: Lessons / Ian McEwan.
Description: First United States edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. | “This is a Borzoi
book”—Title page verso.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022013935 (print) | LCCN 2022013936 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593535202
(hardcover) | ISBN 9780593535219 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.
Classification: LCC PR6063.C4 L47 2022 (print) | LCC PR6063.C4 (ebook) | DDC 823/.914—
dc23/eng/20220323
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2 022013935
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2 022013936
Ebook ISBN 9780593535219
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.
Cover illustration by Tina Berning/Synergy
Cover design by John Gall,
based on a design © Suzanne Dean
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Contents
Cover
Also by Ian McEwan
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Part Two
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Part Three
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Acknowledgements
Permissions Acknowledgments
A Note About the Author
To my sister, Margy Hopkins,
and my brothers,
Jim Wort and David Sharp
First we feel. Then we fall.
—James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
Part One