
Ian McEwan
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
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The Story of Roland, a Book Review
The story is about a unfulfilled talent in some ways, or certainly, as you saya, protagonist, a hero who doesn't scale the height. A clearly have roland a confronts, from the age of 11, a very important experience with his piano teacher - and we learn later that she's sort of oddly fallen in love with him. Then at the age of 14, the cuban missile crisis begins. So i shift this a little and exaggerate it a little, but has a colossal effect on the state of mind of my hero,. My central figure, roland, always looking for thi life that's going to open up into total freedom, and therefore never quite
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