Tag: ian mcewan
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Adlestrop, Edward Thomas and Sweet Tooth
Read more: Adlestrop, Edward Thomas and Sweet ToothI had to look up this poem after reading about it in Ian McEwan’s novel, Sweet Tooth. Adlestrop, a poem by Edward Thomas, comes up in a moment of intimacy between the heroine, Serena Frome, and her lover, Tom Haley, a writer.
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Sweet Tooth: A love story
Read more: Sweet Tooth: A love storyIan McEwan, author of Atonement and Amsterdam, which won the Booker prize in 1998, knows how to begin a story. Sweet Tooth has your attention from the get-go:
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World War II in books and films
Read more: World War II in books and filmsHere’s September 1 one day late: September 1, 1939, written by WH Auden in New York when Germany invaded Poland, starting the Second World War. The war produced epic novels and movies. Casablanca was made in 1942, the year America joined the war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Brief Encounter was made in…
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On Chesil Beach: Life (and sex)
Read more: On Chesil Beach: Life (and sex)On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. A relationship formalised when her stroking his penis elicits a marriage proposal from him ends on wedding night when her grasping his penis again makes him come all over her, sending her fleeing in revulsion first to the bathroom and then out of the hotel. She is frigid, Edward…
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Atonement: Appearance and reality, morality and the law
Read more: Atonement: Appearance and reality, morality and the lawAtonement is a brilliant novel. Ian McEwan performs literary magic playing with appearance and reality. But he also probes character and morality and ends with an expose of how the law can hinder justice. Even when Briony Trallis realises who the perpetrator is of the crime she witnessed as a girl, she cannot expose him…
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The magic of Ian McEwan
Read more: The magic of Ian McEwanSaturday by Ian McEwan Seldom have I read a better book. It’s about a day in a man’s life. Forty-eight-year-old neurosurgeon Henry Perowne wakes up in the middle of the night in his posh London home, sees a plane in the sky and fears it is going down in flames. But there’s nothing he can…
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