What is the significance of the epigraph taken from Timothy Garton-Ash's The File: "If only I had met, on this search, a single clearly evil person"?How does it tie in with the major themes of Sweet Tooth and McEwan's method of characterization?; Why do you believe that the author chose to set a contemporary novel in the England of the s during the lingering Cold War? Ian McEwan's novel 'Sweet Tooth' is set in London in the early s at a time when our security services are launching a programme to covertly finance young writers who could be useful to the government's ideological struggle against communism/5(K). · Sweet Tooth. In this stunning new novel, Ian McEwan's first female protagonist since Atonement is about to learn that espionage is the ultimate seduction. Cambridge student Serena Frome's beauty and intelligence make her the ideal recruit for MI5. The year is /5.
Sweet Tooth. Ian McEwan's latest novel is an exercise in deception - an engaging book that's as much suspenseful drama as it is romantic love story. At the center is Serena Frome, who after graduating from university as a math major (but with a reputation for being a lover of novels) lands a desk job with the intelligence agency, MI5. What is the significance of the epigraph taken from Timothy Garton-Ash's The File: "If only I had met, on this search, a single clearly evil person"?How does it tie in with the major themes of Sweet Tooth and McEwan's method of characterization?; Why do you believe that the author chose to set a contemporary novel in the England of the s during the lingering Cold War? Sweet tooth By Ian McEwan First published in Genre subject Great Britain - Fiction Women spies - Fiction Synopsis Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is
Sweet Tooth is a novel by the English writer Ian McEwan, published on 21 August It deals with the experiences of its protagonist, Serena Frome, during the early s. After graduating from Cambridge she is recruited by MI5, and becomes involved in a covert program to combat communism by infiltrating the intellectual world. How does it tie in with the major themes of Sweet Tooth and McEwan's method of characterization? Why do you believe that the author chose to set a contemporary novel in the England of the s during the lingering Cold War? What contemporary or otherwise timeless themes is McEwan able to treat by adopting this political-historical backdrop?. McEwan confirms that Sweet Tooth contains semi-autobiographical elements. What are these parallels and where do these parallels diverge or end? How alike are Haley and McEwan? McEwan and Serena? What does this tell readers about the relationship between reality and fiction—or else the disparity between the two?
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