I have just finished the latest Ian McEwan novella, Nutshell [London: Jonathan Cape, 2016]. You can’t get past the epigraph with its quotation from Hamlet without realizing this is going to be a reworking, reinterpretation, McEwan take on the play. The wife is (Ger)Trudy and her lover, and brother of her husband, is Claude. The …
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Published on September 19, 2016 08:33