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Sweet Tooth
by Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan really is the male Jane Austen, and this book proves this better than any of his others. His characters are always erudite and well-spoken people of middle or upper class circumstances. His talent is both an amazingly supple facility with words and an awesome ability to live inside the psychology of his creations. From the very first sentence to the twist at the end, the reader is meant to wonder what these characters are up to when the book is closed and one is not reading them. The protagonist is a female who appears to be written so fully that I was constantly marveling at McEwan's feat. This twist at the end (it's not a huge one) makes this all the more interesting. The one knock against this great book is the Cold War setting. It certainly makes sense for the spy vs. spy setting, but Cold War novels always seem about what might happen, not things that actually happen.