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A novelist answers back

CarolCarol
edited April 2007 in - Reading

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  • CarolCarol
    Just reading the Guardian online and came across a response from the author on a review of his latest novel On Chesil Beach.
    I wonder what irritated him so much.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2051850,00.html
  • CarolCarol
    Yes, I agree Dorothy. Each reviewer has their own reaction and perception, and another might see something totally different. Each view is valid. For a writer it is part of life, so I was a little amused to see the author get so aggrieved.
  • VericaVerica
    Thank you, Carol, for drawing our attention to this - it made interesting reading.
                           
  • NefertariNefertari
    Maybe Ian McEwan was still feeling a bit peeved after being told off for taking some pebbles off Chesil beach to put on his fireplace. He faces a fine.http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-161513914.html
  • CarolCarol
    Probably thought everyone was having a go at him.
    I understand from the article that the pebbles were returned via someone else.
  • HowardHoward
    He certainly certainly spotted a weakness and went for it, didn't he?
  • KangarooKangaroo
    When I saw the words 'Chesil Beach' I thought, 'Now where have I seen that? Then I remembered, the weekend papers over here.
  • CarolCarol
    What did your papers say Kangeroo, was it about the beach or the book.
    (I have some pictures of my boys buried in the pebbles on Chesil Beach, from our holiday last August.)
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