This is the first book by Ian McEwen that I've read and I will be reading more. McEwen write amazingly involving prose, so much so that he can make you actually care about a totally despicable character like Michael Beard. Dr. Beard is a Nobel prize winning physicist. He is also a liar, a cheat and ...
This gave me everything I could have asked for from a new Ian McEwan, a topical subject,[ global-warming:] and a totally human, messy character making a mess of his life as we make a mess of the planet. My criticisms, if any, are very small ones. If one thinks of a random number to put in a story th...
Hugh Bonneville reads from Ian McEwan's new novel. Michael Beard is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him, and now finds that his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her.Abridged by Barry Johnston.D...
I'm still wiggling on the fence between a hug or an enthusiastic wet kiss. Loved passages and some few hundred of McEwan's sentences, appreciated its whole-hearted embrace of its central cad, smitten by its over-arching conceit (see below), but felt slightly let down by the way that conceit constra...
Rating: two grudging stars of five (p81)In the middle of a paragraph, a thunderbolt struck me: I don't like Ian MxEwan. I didn't like Atonement...I thought the damned kid shoulda been stoned...I didn't like Saturday...and I do NOT like this tedious tale of a credit-grabbing bore of a has-been.So tha...
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