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Excellent interview with a novelist who came into his own with _Atonement_ (in my opinion). Up until that book, I found his novels technically brilliant but emotionally flat. I hated the trick endings of some of them, too -- particularly _Amsterdam_.
ReplyDeleteWe read to find that the world and our lives has a greater meaning, not a lesser, parodic one. Martin Amis has never gotten that, but Ian McEwan has, and Julian Barnes is coming 'round.
I'll be buying _Chesil Beach_ for sure: McEwan's heart has now caught up with his mind.