Michael B.
>
> I haven't read any Ian McEwan at all. Anybody got any raw data on
> that body of work?
>
McEwan's early novel "The Cement Garden" [1978] as well as the story-collections
from the 1970s ("First Love, Last Rites"; "In Between the Sheets") were more than
just promising. Yet since "Amsterdam" [1998] he has written nothing but crap.
kfl