Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

May 24, 2019 by Christina

Fiction – print. Nan A. Talese, 2019. 337 pgs. Purchased. In McEwan’s alternative 1980s London, the British lose the Falkland War and Margaret Thatcher is pushed out of a power by a resurgent Labour Party led by Tony Benn. These events are minor, though, to the fact that Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, was never subjected to chemical castration for being a homosexual in the 1950s. As a result, Turning never committed suicide and the computer revolution of […]

Categories: 2019 Reads, Europe, Fiction, Science Fiction, United Kingdom • Tags: Ian McEwan

Atonement by Ian McEwan

March 19, 2008 by Christina

On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century. After watching the movie version I was honestly a bit disenfranchised […]

Categories: 2008 Reads, AP Literature, Fiction • Tags: Ian McEwan