Jen's review
The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan
Jen's review
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Jen's review
rating:
The subject matter may be disturbing and even offensive but I thought this book was excellent; it promotes revulsion from the reader which makes the read far more emotionally challenging. The writing is very compressed and I think the story being so short helps to make it even more hard hitting - there is no room for the reader to breathe!
This book taught me to be challenged by modern fiction and although I love getting absorbed into an easy to read novel, I think it is also important to keep the possibilities of what literature can do open to us.
This book taught me to be challenged by modern fiction and although I love getting absorbed into an easy to read novel, I think it is also important to keep the possibilities of what literature can do open to us.
