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Ian McEwan: Critical Review by James Wood

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Ian McEwan
About 14 pages (4,309 words)
Atonement (novel) Summary

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SOURCE: Wood, James. “The Trick of Truth.” New Republic 226, no. 11 (25 March 2002): 28.

In the following review, Wood commends Atonement as one of McEwan's finest novels, lauding the large scope of the plot and a feeling of “spaciousness” that is in contrast to McEwan's other works which, Wood asserts, have at times seemed “artificial” and contrived.

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