Book review: Lessons is an epic of a man’s life spent in the shadow of being groomed

Lessons by Ian McEwan. PHOTOS: BASTIAN SCHWEITZER DIOGENES VERLAG
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Lessons
By Ian McEwan
Fiction/Penguin Random House/Paperback/485 pages/$32.10/Books Kinokuniya
4 stars

Can you contain a whole life in 500 pages? Why not, for other authors have sought to capture far more.

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