6/6/2023 0 Comments Sweet tooth mcewan![]() ![]() ![]() Serena's ambitions are unformed, and her ideology is largely borrowed (from a Cambridge history professor with whom she had an affair, and the Times' editorials), yet not too far into her dreary secretarial tenure, via a flirtation with a colleague named Max, she is invited to join a new, higher-level program.Ĭode-named Sweet Tooth, the project will surreptitiously fund English writers who appear to have the right sort of sympathies. Anyone who has seen the recent film version of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" will have the right images to draw on - dim lighting, mustard-colored jackets, rooms full of smoke - as McEwan's heroine, Serena Frome, takes a lowly post in MI5's shabby offices shortly after graduating from Cambridge. McEwan's new novel, "Sweet Tooth," takes place against a vivid 1970s England unraveling with strikes and fuel shortages, in the murky corridors of the British intelligence agency MI5. And whether in fictions set in the last century ("Atonement," "On Chesil Beach") or contemporary morality tales ("Saturday," "Solar"), McEwan's characters are never far away from the possibility of violence and the threat of deceit. ![]() What could be a better match - Ian McEwan and a spy story? The English writer is a thinking person's best-seller, whose intelligent, tightly plotted novels, narrated in careful prose, address the pressing social and political issues of our days. ![]()
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