β Scribed by Ian McEwan
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A novel and a collection of short stories by English writer McEwan offer chilling portraits of sexual obsession.
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βDarkly impressive.β -- The Times
βA superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right.β -- Tom Paulin
βMarvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable.β -- Sunday Times
"A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable...The effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism -- a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels." -- _New York Review of Books
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"His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing." -- _The Times
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"The Maestro." -- _New Statesman
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"McEwan has--a style and a vision of life of his own...No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him." -- John Fowles
"A sparkling and adventurous writer." -- Dennis Potter
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