7/2/2023 0 Comments Lessons by ian mcewan review![]() ![]() His greatest novels are about children, and the child’s view of the world The Cement Garden, The Child in Time, Atonement and Nutshell all concern themselves with the disastrous results that occur when children’s naive interpretations of the world slam into adult lives. The first third of the novel is vintage McEwan. If the novel is about anything it’s about the strange love-hate relationship between England and Germany in the post-1945 era. Lessons is a big, sweeping, epic novel which takes in a lot of recent European history. Fittingly enough, The Child in Time is the novel Lessons most resembles. Until now Ian McEwan has only written one genuinely autobiographical moment that I can discern, in The Child in Time, a personal favourite of mine, when the main character remembers a North African boyhood. It is also very autobiographical, which makes it very unusual. Lessons clocks in at a whopping 483 pages, making it significantly longer than any of his previous novels. The exceptions – Atonement, Solar – are few and far between. Ian McEwan’s greatest contribution is probably his novellas, short novels of 220 pages or less. Firstly, it’s significantly longer than his other novels. ![]() Lessons, Ian McEwan’s 17th novel, marks a significant departure from his previous fiction in a number of different ways. ![]()
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