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Article: From Chesil Beach to the lost hills of Galilee IAN McEWAN NIALL GRIFFITHS & RUPERT THOMSON RAJA SHEHADEH CLIVE STAFFORD-SMITH
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- The Scotsman
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- August 25, 2007
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FOR once, there's no reading. No set-up of characters and plot, no
explanations, no carefully masked hard sell. Just a thoughtful,
thoroughly prepared interviewer (that's Ian Rankin getting my vote as
the festival's best chair), a thoughtful writer (when is Ian McEwan
anything else?) and the kind of unpredictable, unshowy questions from
the audience that are rarer than they ought to be.
Put it all together, and you got a fair picture of what kind of
writer Ian McEwan, pictured, has been (over-influenced, he now says,
by the tail-end of existentialism), and how he changed to the kind of
writer he is now. You see how he started out, the poster boy for
Malcolm Bradbury's post-graduate course ...