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"The plot crackles like thin ice with dread and suspense" (Sunday Times)
"Powerful and disturbing...a tour de force" (New York Times)
"To call The Innocent a spy novel would be like calling Lord of the Flies a boy's adventure yarn...it ensure McEwan's major status" (Sunday Times)
"The sheer cleverness of the book is dazzling, and only fully to be appreciated as you turn the last page" (London Review of Books)
"Generous in scale, simple in its hideous impact... Ironically, he has celebrated the obsequies of the East-West spy thriller by writing one of the subtlest" (Mail on Sunday)
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"Powerful and disturbing...a tour de force" (New York Times)
"To call The Innocent a spy novel would be like calling Lord of the Flies a boy's adventure yarn...it ensure McEwan's major status" (Sunday Times)
"The sheer cleverness of the book is dazzling, and only fully to be appreciated as you turn the last page" (London Review of Books)
"Generous in scale, simple in its hideous impact... Ironically, he has celebrated the obsequies of the East-West spy thriller by writing one of the subtlest" (Mail on Sunday)
'Crackles like thin ice with suspense' Mail on Sunday
'To call The Innocent a spy novel would be like calling Lord of the Flies a boy's adventure yarn...the plot crackles like thin ice with dread and suspense...it ensures McEwan's major staus' John Carey, Sunday Times
'To call The Innocent a spy novel would be like calling Lord of the Flies a boy's adventure yarn...the plot crackles like thin ice with dread and suspense...it ensures McEwan's major staus' John Carey, Sunday Times
'Generous in scale, simple in its hideous impact...Ironically, he has celebrated the obsequies of East-West spy thriller by writing one of the subtlest' David Hughes, Mail on Sunday
'The sheer cleverness of the book is dazzling, and only fully to be appreciated as you turn the last page: but then cleverness is a real virtue here, the best guide possible to the questionable territory between innocence and whatever comes after' Michael Wood, London Review of Books
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0224052608
- ISBN 13 9780224052603
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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