![]() ![]() Like Atonement (2001), the masterpiece that sold 4 million copies and became a 2007 film, this is a historical novel of the kind McEwan alternates with contemporary issues. ![]() Yet she falls for Tom Haley, the young writer she covertly funds, in a playful spy novel about passion, duplicity and fiction’s myriad disguises. Code-named Sweet Tooth, her operation backs intellectuals who lean to the “right” side ideologically in the cultural Cold War. ![]() Serena Frome (“rhymes with Plume”) is an Anglican bishop’s daughter and Cambridge student recruited as a British intelligence agent in the early 1970s by her older lover, a history professor. For it to work, for them not to be cynical, there has to be freedom for individuals and a social contract.”įreedom, and the sometimes dubious means used to safeguard it, are at the heart of his 15th book of fiction, Sweet Tooth. “I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress. Pancras station, its neo-gothic architecture an echo of his virtuoso early fiction. “I felt a ballooning sense of love for this city-any city,” McEwan tells me over a latte in the Renaissance hotel at St. Instead, many hands helped the youth to his feet in a moment that touched a witness still basking in London’s Olympic afterglow. ![]()
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