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Sep 13, 2022 · In “Lessons,” the hero is seduced by his piano teacher when he’s 14, then abandoned by his wife while he passively watches history unfold. Are these events connected?
Sep 20, 2022 · McEwan’s new novel, “Lessons,” is a profound demonstration of his remarkable skill. While the story shares a few tantalizing similarities with the author’s life, it’s no roman à clef.
Sep 13, 2022 · Ian McEwan. 4.00. 24,613 ratings3,244 reviews. When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down.
Sep 13, 2022 · In Ian McEwan's expansive new novel, a man assesses his life's trajectory from childhood to old age, focusing especially on what he considers his wrong turns and disappointments.
Lessons may not be McEwan’s sharpest novel, but it is one of his most humane and agreeable. It is continuously interesting and pleasing, and that is more – much more – than an be said for many novels that by their determined oddity impress the judges of many book prizes.
Reviews of Lessons by Ian McEwan, plus links to a book excerpt from Lessons and author biography of Ian McEwan.
Mar 4, 2023 · Some reviewers of Ian Mc Ewan’s new novel, Lessons, suggest that the central character, Roland Baines, is a whining, privileged loser who never really got his act together, and claim that the novel lacks action and includes too much history.
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Sep 13, 2022 · McEwan’s richly textured novel offers cryptic lessons, but what they teach leaves Roland, 'an ardent autodidact,' bewildered. The literary artistry leaves this reader in awe. Lessons by Ian McEwan has an overall rating of Positive based on 40 book reviews.
Sep 20, 2022 · Lessons is Ian McEwan’s Napoleon Street novel. It gathers up its author’s dazzlements and remixes them – gives them shape and lustre. Not enough shape, perhaps.
