We met at the St Boniface Arms on Wednesday night to discuss the author Ian McEwan of “Atonement” fame “¦these are some of our thoughts.
“Obviously an accomplished writer”¦one of the first on Bradbury’s Creative Writing Course at UEA in the 60’s and now named in the Times as one of our top 50 post war writers.”
“So glad I persisted – after a slow start I wizzed through it.”
“On Chesil Beach – deceptively simple – a “quick read” but actually very complex and rewarding.”
“Multi-layered – is Atonement a “wartime romance” as the film blurb claims, OR is it an Evelyn Waugh style examination of the class system, OR an examination of a child’s emotional immaturity and subsequent lie, OR, is it about the act of novel writing and story telling itself? What does the end mean?”
“He seems obsessed with the fragility of life. His characters are finely drawn and honest – flawed and very human. There are similarities in the male characters in some of the books, notably in On Chesil Beach and The Innocent.”
“I shall read more “¦the film Enduring love was a good adaptation of the book.”
“I love the way the writing flows.”
