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yossarianlives 's review for:
Sweet Tooth
by Ian McEwan
My favorite book of the year. McEwan understands more about why we read novels, and how seductive relationship between readers and writer, than any critic or an other novelist I know. Like "Atonement," this novel is a high wire act, playing with the acts of reading and writing while simultaneously offering a richly imagined world and compelling characters; also like "Atonement," it is a vivid exploration of the possibilities of happy endings. He pokes fun at his early work; the young novelist is writing a bleak work that sounds more than a little like McCarthy's "The Road." But while many critics have rejected this "autobiographical novel" as somehow beneath McEwan's talents, he tells a very compelling story about powers and limits of postmodern play and cynicism in the novel since the 1970s. It's both highly readable and very smart. The last novel I read straight through in a matter of 2 or 3 days.