![]() ![]() So she claims to have the ability to read McEwan's mind, telling her listeners that he is displaying his contempt for all female readers - or for anyone that enjoys fiction, the very genre McEwan has made his life's work.įirst, she calls Sweet Tooth "ingenious" and says she "admired" it. ![]() Corrigan knows, however, that this is not reason enough to condemn the novel - she has to offer more. She is angry because the novel's main character is a woman whom McEwan seems to be ridiculing because of the character's low-brow reading tastes - because, according to Corrigan, McEwan is, in fact, ridiculing all female readers. Corrigan comes across as a feminist who is outraged that McEwan would dare knock that huge chip from her shoulder. I now understand her references to McEwan's post-modernist tricks and the like, but I am still dumbfounded that she has trashed Sweet Tooth to such a degree. ![]() I listened to that review a day or so ago when I was maybe 100 pages into the novel, and I was immediately struck by Corrigan's anger and the vicious tone she uses to show her utter contempt for Sweet Tooth. This is simply a reflection on Maureen Corrigan's radio review of the same book for NPR. I finished reading Ian McEwan's new novel, Sweet Tooth, exactly ten minutes ago, so this is not meant to be any kind of a review of the book. ![]()
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