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“This is a great big
beautiful Russian doll of a novel, and its construction—deft, tight,
exhilaratingly immaculate—is a huge part of its pleasure…Sweet Tooth is
a comic novel and a novel of ideas, but, unlike so many of those, it also
exerts a keen emotional pull.”
— Observer (London)
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“Sweet Tooth takes the expectations and tropes of the Cold War thriller and
ratchets up the suspense…A well-crafted pleasure to read, its smooth prose and
slippery intelligence sliding down like cream.”
— Independent (London)
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“A wisecracking
thriller hightailing between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage
credentials thrown in…This is ultimately a book about writing, wordplay, and
knowingness.”
— Telegraph (London)
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“Thoroughly clever…A
sublime novel about novels, about writing them and reading them and the spying
that goes on in doing both…McEwan has spied on real life to write Sweet
Tooth, and in reading it we are invited to spy on him…Rich and enjoyable.”
— Financial Times
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“A disgraced spy, a
failed mission, a ruined lover: Ian McEwan’s new novel, Sweet Tooth,
opens at full tilt…The novel’s pleasures are multiple and, as always with
McEwan, they begin with the storytelling.”
— Bloomberg Businessweek
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“McEwan’s most stylish
and personal book to date…The year’s most intensely enjoyable novel.”
— Daily Beast
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“Gloriously readable
and, at times, wickedly funny.”
— Irish Times
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“McEwan writes with
his usual clinical precision, brilliantly evoking the London of dingy Camden
flats, the three-day week, and IRA atrocities. His assumption of a female
persona is pitch-perfect.”
— Daily Mail (London)
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“McEwan fans won’t be
disappointed by Sweet Tooth, and newcomers to the author will be
meeting him at the top of his game.”
— Globe and Mail
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“A subtly and sweetly
subversive novel [that is a] masterful manipulation of the relationship(s)
between fiction and truth…Britain’s foremost living novelist has written a book
as drily funny as it is thoughtful.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“Juliet Stevenson
has a lovely reading voice with a slight British accent that captures the
personality of Serena in this first person narration. She convincingly
expresses the ambivalence that is tearing Serena apart.”
— SoundCommentary.com