No fumble, miscue, or calamity is omitted." - Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly Only Philip Larkin has ever decribed sex more bleakly than McEwan does here. It would be less interesting to term this a generational achievement than a national one. "McEwan, a '60s child if ever there was one, comes to remind us that there were losers, all right, and that there still are.It's the necessary step back, the distancing effect that puts one rotten hour into historical perspective." - Steven Carroll, The Age Some might find the summing up a bit too neat I didn't. So when the powerful ending comes (and two years later we could have witnessed a completely different outcome), there's a lot behind it.
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