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Article: Bicontinental Best-Seller.(author Ian McEwan )(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- March 29, 1999
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Ian McEwan's Amsterdam is a psychological thriller that satirizes pompons newspaper editors and politicians alike. The novel is on best-seller lists on both sides of the Atlantic.
Unlike most British writers, I did not go to Oxford" says Ian McEwan with well-schooled aplomb, explaining that he just happens to live in this fabled university town to look after his children from a first marriage. No, McEwan insists, he's an "Army brat" and graduate of the University of Sussex who had the good fortune to have his first short story accepted by a literary magazine. Immediately, two book publishers began vying for his talent, allowing him to concentrate on the business ...