antw. Literary inspiration /: mcewan

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Paul Mackin schrieb: > _Amsterdam_ is also lying here to be read.

   beware! you'll perhaps somehow like it while reading (it has suspense), yet  
   afterwards you feel like having eaten fast food for weeks ... at least this  
   was my experience.
                                greetings: kai

   ps: "psychopolis", however, will always remain my favourite l.a. story.


> Anybody read Ian McEwan's recent (just out in U.S.) _Atonement_?  I just did 
> and was curious if any p-listers might have liked it.  On one level I have to 
> say the book is quite a downer. It deals with a) an innocent man being sent 
> to prison because of the lie of one of the novel's principal characters--a 
> 13-year old girl at the time, b) a disastrous WW II retreat (Dunkirk), and c) 
> grisly life in a wartime London military hospital.  But the book is also 
> about fiction writing. Fiction writing from what I would be inclined to call 
> an economics perspective. The COST--there ain't no free lunch--of literary 
> creation both to the creator himself (HERself in this particular case) and 
> the real people from whom she needs to draw inspiration.