![]() ![]() ![]() It is the price one pays for the book's originality, vividness, wit and power to intrigue." well worth reading despite its sometimes arbitrary and implausible nature. Though he isn't working hard at it here." They are mostly one-finger exercises containing a few passages of striking writing which tell us that Mr. "This collection will no doubt find its audience, yet the stories are really not very good. They are so consistently unpleasant, unlikable and bitter that we can't believe in them. "hat makes the book difficult is that these children are not - we trust - real people at all. ' The Cement Garden,' reviewed by Anne Tyler.This is a tribute to Ian McEwan, a young British writer who has an extraordinary talent for humanizing potentially unpalatable "hat sounds lurid and macabre in summary comes across on the page as poignant and often appealing. Ian McEwan holds a copy of "Amsterdam" at The Guildhall in the City of London. 'Amsterdam' by Ian McEwan Wins Booker Prize (October 28, 1998).Michiko Kakutani Reviews 'Amsterdam' (December 1, 1998).Pritchard Reviews 'Amsterdam' (December 27, 1998) With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times ![]()
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