![]() ![]() He doesn’t make that journey until a bit later, when he is 14 and Miriam 25. Then she plants a kiss on his mouth, and invites him - orders him - to visit her at home during the next school holiday. His piano instructor is the rosewater-scented Miss Miriam Cornell, a pretty sadist who pinches Roland’s thigh when he biffs a section of Bach. Roland is 11 years old and it is time he received a proper education: Latin, French, cricket, rugby, piano. Roland’s father is part of the British Army contingent in North Africa his mother works at a Y.M.C.A. Roland Baines and his parents arrive in London from Libya in the late summer of 1959. ![]() ![]() His characters are occasionally lecherous, often bitter and always secularly human. He specializes in the mental life of one particular, culturally endemic type: the contemporary middle-class British male. Nobody is better at writing about entropy, indignity and ejaculation - among other topics - than Ian McEwan. ![]()
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