Reviews
"A death-defying story, inventive, eventful, and affirmative without being sentimental." -- Time "Luminous, haunting, restrained . . . cuts to the core of human existence." -- Chicago Tribune "Resonates with psychological reality: the beautifully layered relationships, the tracing of the many-layered love between father and child, husband and wife. . . . As artfully conceived as it is poignantly realized." -- The New York Times Book Review "A great pleasure to read. . . . McEwan writes as if Dickens, Lawrence, and Woolf were in his bones. . . . Funny and unsentimentally passionate." -- The Wall Street Journal, Whitbread Prize Winner "A death-defying story, inventive, eventful, and affirmative without being sentimental." -- Time "Luminous, haunting, restrained ... cuts to the core of human existence." -- Chicago Tribune "Resonates with psychological reality: the beautifully layered relationships, the tracing of the many-layered love between father and child, husband and wife.... As artfully conceived as it is poignantly realized." -- The New York Times Book Review "A great pleasure to read.... McEwan writes as if Dickens, Lawrence, and Woolf were in his bones.... Funny and unsentimentally passionate." -- The Wall Street Journal, "A death-defying story, inventive, eventful, and affirmative without being sentimental." - Time "Luminous, haunting, restrained . . . cuts to the core of human existence." - Chicago Tribune "Resonates with psychological reality: the beautifully layered relationships, the tracing of the many-layered love between father and child, husband and wife. . . . As artfully conceived as it is poignantly realized." - The New York Times Book Review "A great pleasure to read. . . . McEwan writes as if Dickens, Lawrence, and Woolf were in his bones. . . . Funny and unsentimentally passionate." - The Wall Street Journal, "A death-defying story, inventive, eventful, and affirmative without being sentimental." -Time "Luminous, haunting, restrained . . . cuts to the core of human existence." -Chicago Tribune "Resonates with psychological reality: the beautifully layered relationships, the tracing of the many-layered love between father and child, husband and wife. . . . As artfully conceived as it is poignantly realized." -The New York Times Book Review "A great pleasure to read. . . . McEwan writes as if Dickens, Lawrence, and Woolf were in his bones. . . . Funny and unsentimentally passionate." -The Wall Street Journal
