Book Review #20
The Children Act
by Ian McEwan
This is McEwan's best book since "On Chesil Beach," beautifully written and carefully composed. He has created a complex main character faced with moral choices and life and death decisions involving a handsome, creative and highly intelligent teenage boy dying of leukemia.
As with "On Chesil Beach" and "Atonement," but more so with this novel, I had to reread certain passages towards the end to fully comprehend the gravity and the emotional consequences endured by the protagonists and the people whose lives they have touched.
This is an admirable and lovely work of fiction, haunting and heartbreaking.
by Ian McEwan
This is McEwan's best book since "On Chesil Beach," beautifully written and carefully composed. He has created a complex main character faced with moral choices and life and death decisions involving a handsome, creative and highly intelligent teenage boy dying of leukemia.
As with "On Chesil Beach" and "Atonement," but more so with this novel, I had to reread certain passages towards the end to fully comprehend the gravity and the emotional consequences endured by the protagonists and the people whose lives they have touched.
This is an admirable and lovely work of fiction, haunting and heartbreaking.
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