![]() The raging arguments about whether the book is too short to qualify as a novel, whether McEwan was only on the list in some weird attempt to atone for the lack of Booker recognition for (ahem) Atonement, and the question of whether people were really as innocent as McEwan wants to portray them in 1962 all muddied the issue. (A "reviewella" as BillyMills neatly suggested.) If he weren't earning so much lovely money with Atonement and, you know, so fabulously successful and respected, I'd almost feel sorry for the chap.īy the time I got round to reading On Chesil Beach, I'd already absorbed so much opinion about it that it was hard to approach in an objective state of mind. Indeed, I half wonder if the safest thing to do with this review would just be to leave this post now with a big "?" and hand it over so you people below can savage McEwan. ![]()
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