Ian McEwan's new novel Solar is splitting the critics in unexpected ways. In the Daily Telegraph last month, Tibor Fischer wrote:
McEwan has always displayed an Orwellian economy in his prose and Solar is no exception
In the New York Times yesterday, Walter Kirn describes McEwan's prose in Solar as:
a buttery, rich sauce ladled onto overcooked, dry meat to help readers swallow an otherwise indigestible meal
It can't be both.
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