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Please help me find out the purpose or motives behind McEwan's creation of this very dislike character -- Michael Beard. What does McEwan want to say through Beard?
Suzanne Auckerman I have no clue. Perhaps how people are shaped by their parents--his mother was kind of strange as well as the impact of fame. Receiving the Nobel Priz…moreI have no clue. Perhaps how people are shaped by their parents--his mother was kind of strange as well as the impact of fame. Receiving the Nobel Prize at such an early age was the pinnacle.
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Solar
by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
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