SOURCE: Slay, Jack, Jr. “Vandalizing Time: Ian McEwan's The Child in Time.” Critique 35, no. 4 (summer 1994): 205-18.
In the following essay, Slay examines the connections between children and the passage of time in The Child in Time, drawing attention to parallels between the loss of the protagonist's child and the theme of time as the destroyer of youth and, alternately, as a mode of recovery and rejuvenation.
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