The Innocent
- Author Ian McEwan
- Narrator Steven Pacey
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 7 hours and 55 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Espionage and spy thriller, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Politics, Psychological thriller.
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Critics Review
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To call The Innocent a spy novel would be like calling Lord of the Flies a boy’s adventure yarn…it ensure McEwan’s major status
Sunday Times -
The sheer cleverness of the book is dazzling, and only fully to be appreciated as you turn the last page: but then cleverness is a real virtue here, the best guide possible to the questionable territory between innocence and whatever comes after
London Review of Books -
It’s the most tightly plotted of Ian McEwan’s novels, and to argue properly for its excellence would involve showing how the political and emotional themes are inseparable from its narrative ingenuity, the patterns of revelation and about-turn which mark its final pages
Guardian -
Generous in scale, simple in its hideous impact…Ironically, he has celebrated the obsequies of the East-West spy thriller by writing one of the subtlest
Mail on Sunday -
Deft, taut fiction… Many English writers have been compared to Evelyn Waugh, often wrongly, but this book can stand with the master’s best
The Times
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