Few writers embrace risk with the rapaciousness of Ian McEwan. In Saturday, for instance, he dared readers to doubt that a woman about to be raped would attempt to divert the would-be rapist by reciting Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach.
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A womanising scientist is at the centre of the Booker Prize-winner’s latest novel
Solar by Ian McEwan, published by Jonathan Cape, priced £18.99.
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