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Ian McEwan (Contemporary British Novelists)

Although Ian McEwan's later works are more overtly political, more humane and more literary than the early work, Dominic Head uncovers the continuity as well as the sense of evolution through the oeuvre. Head makes the case for McEwan's prominence in the canon of contemporary British novelists.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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