Ian McEwan's fetal Hamlet is an extravagant spirit confined to the womb while his mother and uncle plot. But he is no sweet prince; the book... There are more dumb Shakespeare adaptations on heaven ...
It takes a lion’s nerve to rewrite “Hamlet” from the viewpoint of a fetus, a stunt conceived and sweetly achieved by Ian McEwan in his latest novel, “Nutshell.” McEwan’s 197-page thimble brims with ...
LITERARY greats delve into birth, life and death this week. Nutshell by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape, £16.99) No literary work has been more adapted, updated, parodied or generally mucked about with than ...
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