With funerals as an arching motif, great humor, and unnatural deaths, this longish novella is as if written by Agatha Christie after a crash course on writing with Poe and having drunk just enough with Roberto Bolaño. “Such a tolerant, openminded, and grown-up sort of place”—such is the way McEwan d...
Enjoyed it. McEwan has a taste for weird topics, so oh, yes! I’m trying other stuff quite soon. I wish I didn’t watch Enduring Love because I bet it’s a catchy reading, but we’ll see about that. About the book. Many themes: love, friendship, cowardice, creation, personal success, seasoned with polit...
I really enjoy Ian McEwan but this book was disappointing. I found it contrived. Of everything he'd written up to this point, it's crazy that the Booker folks chose this one to award the Man Booker prize. Choose pretty much any other of his books. More breath and blood! Less wooden beaming!
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