6/1/2023 0 Comments Roland baines![]() ![]() Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means - literature, travel, friendship, drugs, politics, sex and love. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland’s wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.įrom the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. The story follows Roland as he ages into his seventies and copes with 2020 and the COVID pandemic. As McEwan writes about Roland Baines and the subsequent episodes in his life, they all intertwine with world events. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Roland Baines associates the Miriam years of his life with the Cuban missile crisis. ![]() While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. ‘McEwan is one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose’ New York Times ![]() ‘The supreme novelist of his generation’ Sunday Times Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. The mesmerising new novel from Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement. Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times – a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one ordinary man ![]()
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