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clarkthenotshark 's review for:
Lessons
by Ian McEwan
Difficult to rate and difficult to categorize.
It's a fictional biography of an Englishman but it imitates life in that it's sometimes about one thing and sometimes about another. The focus meanders with the subject's life from new interests and loves to revisiting old ones. Even the titular Lessons are not the entire focus of the story, but what, in retrospect, tipped the subject's life in the direction that it took.
It's literary in its descriptions and is continually compelling but for different reasons and in different ways as it goes along.
It's a fictional biography of an Englishman but it imitates life in that it's sometimes about one thing and sometimes about another. The focus meanders with the subject's life from new interests and loves to revisiting old ones. Even the titular Lessons are not the entire focus of the story, but what, in retrospect, tipped the subject's life in the direction that it took.
It's literary in its descriptions and is continually compelling but for different reasons and in different ways as it goes along.