Debra Murphy, CatholicFiction.net editor, has written an article on the fiction of English novelist Ian McEwan. First published last winter in Second Spring Journal, Debra’s article, “A Christian looks at the fiction of Ian McEwan”, is now available online at CatholicExchange. Here’s how the article begins: Two things need to be gotten out of the [...]
On Chesil Beach (2007)
November 17, 2008 Leave a Comment
by Ian McEwan reviewed by John Murphy Ian McEwan has built his reputation on elegant sentences describing horrific events: the abduction of a child, an out-of-control air balloon, an imagined rape, a break-in. In novels like Enduring Love, Atonement, and Saturday, these are personal calamities, domestic disasters, that burst lava-like from the dormancy of dailiness. [...]
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