Ian mcewan lessons review5/20/2023 McEwan has typically been a 600-words-a-day craftsman Lessons, written over three lockdowns, has a looser beat – much like the jazz its piano-playing protagonist so enjoys. A “meditation” on the way that global events penetrate and shape the life of a man and those around him, it is baggier and more protean than anything the author has written before, sacrificing polish in favour of swing. It smells like an Ian McEwan novel too, with all the moral dilemmas, cataclysmic events, withheld narratives, comic encounters and dinner-party discourse we have come to expect from the author of Atonement, Saturday and Amsterdam.Īnd yet this intimate but sprawling story about an ordinary man’s reckoning with existence does not resemble the lean, controlled enquiries of McEwan’s past fiction. It features a protagonist who was born in 1948, in the same circumstances as its author and it homes in on moments familiar from his past novels: 1950s postwar Germany ( The Innocent) the thermonuclear-sexual threat of 1962 ( On Chesil Beach) the Thatcherite 1980s ( The Child in Time).
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