Tomasz Dobrogoszcz is assistant professor of English at the University of Lodz

An excellent blend of critical explication and close analysis; Dobrogoszcz deftly and originally combines thought-provoking elucidation of the novels with a consistent theoretical perspective throughout.

• Introduction Part 1: Beginnings Chapter 1: Disturbing Proximity and Grotesque Proportions When It Comes to First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets Chapter 2: The Oedipal Siblings in The Cement Garden of EdenChapter 3: Anchoring The Comfort Of Strangers in the Sadistic Paternal SuperegoPart 2: DevelopmentsChapter 4: The Child in Time and the Child WithinChapter 5: The Precariousness of The Innocent Childish MasculinityChapter 6: The Traumatic Encounter with Black Dogs and the RealChapter 7: Enduring Love, Childlessness, Unreliability, and the Enigma of the Other’s DesirePart 3: Maturity Chapter 8: The Path Toward Death via AmsterdamChapter 9: The Recognition of Otherness in the Fantasy of Atonement Chapter 10: The Pacifying Saturday Fantasy of a Non-pacifistChapter 11: The Big Other Is Watching You Even On Chesil BeachPart 4: Recent Fiction Chapter 12: Solar and the Unbearable Heaviness of DesireChapter 13: The Opalescent Sweet Tooth of Deceptive ManipulationChapter

Tomasz Dobrogoszcz is assistant professor of English at the University of Lodz

An excellent blend of critical explication and close analysis; Dobrogoszcz deftly and originally combines thought-provoking elucidation of the novels with a consistent theoretical perspective throughout.

• Introduction Part 1: Beginnings Chapter 1: Disturbing Proximity and Grotesque Proportions When It Comes to First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets Chapter 2: The Oedipal Siblings in The Cement Garden of EdenChapter 3: Anchoring The Comfort Of Strangers in the Sadistic Paternal SuperegoPart 2: DevelopmentsChapter 4: The Child in Time and the Child WithinChapter 5: The Precariousness of The Innocent Childish MasculinityChapter 6: The Traumatic Encounter with Black Dogs and the RealChapter 7: Enduring Love, Childlessness, Unreliability, and the Enigma of the Other’s DesirePart 3: Maturity Chapter 8: The Path Toward Death via AmsterdamChapter 9: The Recognition of Otherness in the Fantasy of Atonement Chapter 10: The Pacifying Saturday Fantasy of a Non-pacifistChapter 11: The Big Other Is Watching You Even On Chesil BeachPart 4: Recent Fiction Chapter 12: Solar and the Unbearable Heaviness of DesireChapter 13: The Opalescent Sweet Tooth of Deceptive ManipulationChapter

Tomasz Dobrogoszcz is assistant professor of English at the University of Lodz

An excellent blend of critical explication and close analysis; Dobrogoszcz deftly and originally combines thought-provoking elucidation of the novels with a consistent theoretical perspective throughout.

• Introduction Part 1: Beginnings Chapter 1: Disturbing Proximity and Grotesque Proportions When It Comes to First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets Chapter 2: The Oedipal Siblings in The Cement Garden of EdenChapter 3: Anchoring The Comfort Of Strangers in the Sadistic Paternal SuperegoPart 2: DevelopmentsChapter 4: The Child in Time and the Child WithinChapter 5: The Precariousness of The Innocent Childish MasculinityChapter 6: The Traumatic Encounter with Black Dogs and the RealChapter 7: Enduring Love, Childlessness, Unreliability, and the Enigma of the Other’s DesirePart 3: Maturity Chapter 8: The Path Toward Death via AmsterdamChapter 9: The Recognition of Otherness in the Fantasy of Atonement Chapter 10: The Pacifying Saturday Fantasy of a Non-pacifistChapter 11: The Big Other Is Watching You Even On Chesil BeachPart 4: Recent Fiction Chapter 12: Solar and the Unbearable Heaviness of DesireChapter 13: The Opalescent Sweet Tooth of Deceptive ManipulationChapter