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mjanssen 's review for:
The Child in Time
by Ian McEwan
I was daunted to pick this up by the flap copy -- I wasn't sure I wanted to read a book about a missing child. But as it turns out, The Child in Time is only partly about that. More broadly it's about the nature of time and memory, birth and dying, decline and renewal. I'm still chewing over it. But I always enjoy reading McEwan. Like most of my other favorite writers, he has a distinct style and art to his sentences that keeps me coming back and provides pleasure even if other aspects of the book fall short. He also has a dry sense of humor and a certain rhythm. I like being inside his mind.