No one interested in the state and mood of contemporary Britain can afford not to read him" -- John Fowles "McEwan proves himself to be an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind" New York Times "This is a writer whose plainest combination of words is, like the draughtsman's proverbial dot, unmistakeably telling" Financial Times "A writer in full control of his materials...In [his] short stories, the effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensual touch is that of magic realism - a transfiguration of the ordinary that has a strong visceral impact" New York Review of Books "His writing is exact, tender, funny, voluptuous, disturbing" The Times
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