“Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.”

— John Banville

Banville on Saturday http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2005/05/banville_on_sat.html, from The New York Review of Books (source dated 10 May 2005).

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