Sweet Tooth (McEwan) - Book Reviews

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McEwan is in the first tier of novelists writing in English today.... He has achieved a complete mastery of his craft.
New York Observer


This is a great big beautiful Russian doll of a novel, and its construction–deft, tight, exhilaration 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.
Julie Myerson - The Observer


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


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


Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny.
Irish Times


Given the nonstop wisecracks, the book might be most satisfying if read as sheer camp. A twist confirms that the misogyny isn’t to be taken seriously, but Serena’s intellectual inferiority is a joke that takes too long to reach its punch line. McEwan devotees may hope that in his next novel he returns to characterizations deeper than the paper they’re printed on.
Publishers Weekly


A subtly and sweetly subversive novel...and labyrinthine in its masterful manipulation of the relationship(s) between fiction and truth.... Britain's foremost living novelist has written a book-often as drily funny as it is thoughtful--that somehow both subverts and fulfills every expectation its protagonist has for fiction.
Kirkus Reviews