Literary criticism, as a rule, does not sell. Spy novels, as a rule, do. In “Sweet Tooth”, Ian McEwan writes the former as the latter, and it works terrifically well.The spy and the critic are both Serena Frome, a Cambridge-educated mathematician.
Literary criticism, as a rule, does not sell. Spy novels, as a rule, do. In “Sweet Tooth”, Ian McEwan writes the former as the latter, and it works terrifically well.The spy and the critic are both Serena Frome, a Cambridge-educated mathematician.