![]() ![]() The incident is the point at which the two male characters are first brought together and one of them completely misinterprets what's taking place. The various people arrive, take hold of the balloon's ropes but are unable to keep it under control and there is a dreadful accident. In this, the story starts with an accident, where a group of disparate people come together to try and hold a hot air balloon on the ground after the pilot miscalculates. I think I'm going to space hos books out, too many at once could lead to increasing instability. It's very clever, it's also rather unsettling. In this, the seeds are planted mid way through that what Joe is saying might not be true, he might be seeing things, he might be the one with the mental instability. IN Amsterdam you're left wondering if there is a mastermind at work, pulling all the strings. In Atonement, he did the whole rip the carpet out from under your feet in the last chapter trick. ![]() ![]() ![]() He writes very different stories, but in all of them you are left with a nagging sensation that there's something that's not been said, that there is more to this that you've been told. I think I've worked out what McEwan's "thing" might be. ![]()
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