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by Ian McEwan | Other |
ISBN: 0385511809 Global Overview for this book
Registered by florafloraflora on 4/27/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by florafloraflora on Wednesday, April 27, 2005
I got this signed by the author when he came to read here in Washington--whoo! I'm about a third of the way in, and it's good but so far it doesn't feel as important as Atonement, more like a string of excellent set pieces. I can really see the similarities with Mrs. Dalloway. McEwan said Virginia Woolf was the furthest thing from his mind when he was writing this, but I can't help thinking there's at least an unconscious influence at work here.

Journal Entry 2 by florafloraflora on Friday, May 20, 2005
All the ends did get tied together, in a very impressive way. I didn't love this book as much as Atonement, because--I'm sorry--the happy and fortunate Henry Perowne is a bit too smug to care about as much as I did the desperate and/or haunted characters of Atonement. But this was very good.

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