Ian McEwan
1992
Around 180 pages
Ian McEwan is Azor Ahai, the hero that was promised. We've been in a slump lately, occasionally alleviated by okay works. But McEwan always delivers quality novels, and we haven't even reached his best works yet.
Jeremy is the son-in-law of Bernard and June Tremaine. Seeking to understand how their deep love could fracture by ideological differences, Jeremy undertakes writing June's memoirs. McEwan is an entertaining writer and manages to keep the plot moving forward even when he is exploring transcendental ideas.
So for anybody else, this would be their masterpiece, but because it's McEwan, we know he is capable of better than this, and his later novels aren't so dependent on the climax to tie everything together. Still a great work, he's a master of creating suspense.
And we didn't have to linger on the concept of losing your child to serial killer in a supermarket this time, so that's nice.
RATING: ****-
Interesting Facts:
Interesting Facts:
Zadie Smith dubbed Black Dogs a "brilliant, flinty little novel, bursting with big ideas."
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