Atonement (2001) employs the narrative voice of a 77-year-old English woman and focuses on a crucial period of British history between 19. It is extraordinary to consider the distance McEwan has traveled in the intervening quarter century. The stories he wrote at the beginning of his writing career First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets, and Other Stories (1978) - as well as his first two novels The Cement Garden (1979) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981) - described in clinical detail the sexual and social aberrations of adolescent mentalities whose voices offered him at the time "a certain kind of rhetorical freedom" (McEwan, Ricks 526). Roth l Rushdie l Self l Smith l Wintersonīriony's Stand Against Oblivion: Ian McEwan's Atonementįor a long time Ian McEwan found himself trapped in the role of a sensational writer caricatured by the British press as Ian Macabre and the Clapham Shocker. Email: l Amis l Barnes l Beckett l Carter l Finney l Ishiguro l McEwan l Mitchell l Mo
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