Ian McEwan on private lives, global events and the accidents of fortune that shape us
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on October 29, 2022
In 2022, Ian McEwan spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about his latest novel Lessons. (Brian Medina)
Chance plays a role in all our lives.
In his latest novel, Lessons, Ian McEwan shares his own intimate background with his central character, Roland Baines. That is, until a transformative event leads the teenage Roland down a very different path from McEwan himself. From a desert army camp in Libya, to post-war Britain, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and pandemic Brexit – McEwan follows his fictional alter-ego through . . .
