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Sep 13, 2022 · Ian McEwan's latest sprawling and ambitious epic has strongly autobiographical elements, such as his childhood spent in Libya, a story that focuses on Roland Baines through the decades of a life intertwined with and shaped by the background of global and national history right up to the present.
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?
Ian McEwan, our foremost storyteller, returns with an ambitious, mesmerising new novel. Lessons is a chronicle of our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity told through the prism of one man’s lifetime.
Sep 13, 2022 · Epic, mesmerizing, and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times—a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one man's lifetime. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
Lessons is the 17th novel by the author Ian McEwan, published in 2022 by Jonathan Cape. Considered by some to be his most autobiographical novel to date and a boomer parable. Plot. A 14 year old boy Roland Baines is seduced by his piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell. References
Lessons (2022) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan. In it, Roland Baines, a single parent living in London in 1986, reflects on how a piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, sexually assaulted him when he was 11.
The story of how Roland smuggles Animal Farm, a Velvet Underground album, and other contraband to friends in East Germany is a miniature, flawless thriller . . . McEwan’s richly textured novel offers cryptic lessons, but what they teach leaves Roland, ‘an ardent autodidact,’ bewildered.
Sep 13, 2022 · Ian McEwan has taken an all-too-common topic from the day's news about a young boy who has an illicit relationship with his music teacher. How the relationship impacts his future, career choices, and interactions with women are the basis for the story.
Ian McEwan, our foremost storyteller, has written an ambitious, mesmerising new novel, Lessons. The novel is a chronicle of our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity told through the prism of one man’s lifetime.
Sep 13, 2022 · Lessons: A Novel. Kindle Edition. Both epic and intimate, the story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic—from #1 bestselling author Ian McEwan.
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