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...even sort of tried to care that J.T. Leroy, the author of assorted literary works that almost nobody besides Courtney Love had read, was himself fabricated by a San Francisco couple looking for attention. But don?t ask me to be outraged that there are slight similarities between Ian McEwan?s Atonement and the autobiography of a WWII nurse. I just don?t have...
...facts, uncovered by an Oxford University student and printed in various British newspapers, are these. In 1977 the romance writer Lucilla Andrews published No Time for Romance, a memoir of her experiences as a nurse in a London hospital during the Second World War. In 2001 McEwan published his novel Atonement, the heroine of which also spends some time as a nurse during the war. There are some inevitable similarities in their stories. There are also a few sentences in Atonement that echo No Time for Romance a bit too closely...
...example, Andrews writes: "Our 'nursing' seldom involved more than dabbing gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on cuts and scratches, lead lotion on bruises and sprains." Compare that to McEwan (this is on p. 260): "In the way of medical treatments, she had already dabbed gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on a cut, and painted lead lotion on a bruise." There are a couple more instances along these lines, but you get the idea...
...concentrators have never heard of. Among the best are Henry Green's “Loving” and Muriel Spark's “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” Unfortunately, Wood spends almost a month on “Atonement” by Ian McEwan, which is taught in at least three English department courses. But for your two short papers—a grand total of about eight double-spaced pages—you could easily write on something else...
...finds time to write early in the morning and during Rome's notoriously relaxed lunch hour. Reviews of his new book have been good, and just 24 hours after its release last week, a second printing was ordered. Veltroni cites Philip Roth and Ian McEwan as his favorite contemporary authors. But he also cites a more risqué name, Arthur Schnitzler, the Austrian writer who explored the limits of sexuality and the subconscious, and inspired Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut. Asked if he had any of his own recurring dreams, Veltroni chuckled. "I dream with my eyes open...