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Sweet Tooth

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Sweet Tooth

Von: Ian McEwan
Gesprochen von: Juliet Stevenson
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Ian McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self.

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere.

Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a ‘secret mission’ which brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage – trust no one.

The Sweet Tooth audiobook is beautifully narrated by Juliet Stevenson.

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Highly entertaining
Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny
Sweet Tooth takes the expectations and tropes of the Cold War thriller and ratchets up the suspense, while turning it into something else... A well-crafted pleasure to read, its smooth prose and slippery intelligence sliding down like cream
Sublime...impressive...rich and enjoyable
Riveting... Delicious... Gripping
A brilliant portrayal of 1970s Britain at its absolute worst… But it's also a gripping spy novel with some characteristic McEwan twists toward the end
A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning
Playful, comic... This is a great big Russian doll of a novel, and in its construction – deft, tight, exhilaratingly immaculate – is a huge part of its pleasure...exerts a keen emotional pull
McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self
Fans of Ian McEwan should rejoice with the arrival of this novel... An extraordinary, irresistible work of fiction
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Deftly read but story takes a very long time to get going. I found it a bit high-brow and didn't quite get the point of the story. I also found it slightly unbelievable how the author pretended to be a woman. This was my first McEwan. Perhaps I picked the wrong one to start.

Very skilled but story could be more gripping

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Auch beim zweiten Hören noch ein Genuss - eine schön konstruierte Handlung, ironisches Spiel mit der Form und eine perfekte Sprecherin.

Twisted and beautiful

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Sweet Tooth is, sadly, very underwhelming. McEwan's point is well made, but not worth the effort it takes to get there.

What are we looking at here? Freedom of thought? Power of fiction over worldly powers? The power of the spy in all his iterations? It all comes down to fiction vs. reality, in many guises. I see that and it would have made a lovely short story – it's very possible that that's on purpose and kudos to McEwan for that joke, which is actually pretty funny - but none of these themes justify sitting through twelve hours of a bland, mildly annoying, improbable protagonist and a story where every little piece of suspense goes up in nothing, despite it's highly suspenseful setting.

If this were young adult fiction, I'd get why the protagonist's obsessions have to interfere with her life, but in this context it feels petty and unbelievable. It's almost as though she walks through the world with an attitude of "my sexual satisfaction trumps all other interests, and I'm not even sorry," but she's not combining that attitude with the feminist convictions that should logically underly it. You work at MI5, and you don't think twice about starting something with your immediate superior or jumping into bed with the person you're handling? Just because you can?

The ending doesn't really change much here… it explains her lack of depth as a character in a novel, but doesn’t make the story any more relevant. It is a self-reflective ride of contemporary fiction, which is all neatly mirrored in the protagonist - which is all academically lovely, but doesn't elevate the pleasure of the story.

So the whole influence of fiction on reality, yes, sure, but in the end I am left with a piece of fiction that has sorely little influence on my reality – I feel like I am being force-fed his point in many guises, but because they are all self-contained in something that is entirely fictional if we take two steps back from it, they ultimately fail to hit home. This distinguishes Sweet Tooth from Atonement, where the reader's investment in the story is an enormous part of the reveal at the end - the fictional nature of the entire story as told by McEwan doesn't matter there, because the emotions that carry its enormous weight are very real for the reader.

In Sweet Tooth, the reader is left with nothing to feel much about. It's amusing, academically clever. Nothing more.

(In addition, the narrator intones the story with a certain downward cast that might inhibit my enjoyment of the protagonist and my willingness to believe that men would find her so irresistible. She doesn't come across as particularly lively or humorous. This might not be entirely McEwan's fault.)

Underwhelming - literary point not worth the story

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