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The book starts out in 2012 when the now elderly serena reflects back to her youth when she was hired by the british secret service also known as mi5. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Ian mcewan is the bestselling author of 15 previous books, including the novels sweet tooth. Sweet tooth, booker prizewinning novelist ian mcewans latest novel unlike some of his recent novels is not mainly about sexits about spying, and reading. Atonement, winner of the national book critics circle award and the w. Sweet tooth, his new novel, is definitely mature mcewan, intermittently funny and much more sweet than bitter, about as entertaining as a very intelligent novel can be and vice versa.
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In this stunning new novel, ian mcewans first female protagonist since atonement is about to learn that espionage is the ultimate seduction. After graduating from cambridge she is recruited by mi5, and becomes involved in a covert program to combat communism by infiltrating the intellectual world. In sweet tooth, the stakes a budding relationship, government money, one or two peoples jobs are high enough to be interesting, but low enough for the novel to remain manipulative in a merely pleasant way. Aug 28, 2012 ian mcewan s sweet tooth is a smoothly contrived spy story ian mcewan, whose sweet tooth puts a metafictional twist on the spy story photo. Sweet tooth by ian mcewan by dead good audio published on 20120806t17. San francisco chronicle, seattle times cambridge student serena.
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