Sweet Tooth - Softcover

"Effortlessly seductive." --The New York Times

"McEwan's most stylish and personal book to date. . . . The year's most intensely enjoyable novel." --The Daily Beast

"Ian McEwan's delicious new novel provides all the pleasures one has come to expect of him: pervasive intelligence, broad and deep knowledge, elegant prose, subtle wit and, by no means least, a singularly agreeable element of surprise." --The Washington Post

"It's Jane Austen meets John Le Carré meets John Barth. . . . Remarkable." --The Boston Globe

"A tightly crafted, exquisitely executed page-turner--a post-modern hall of mirrors asking savvy questions about identity (with an unreliable narrator and a Martin Amis cameo), all concealed in the immersive trappings of a Victorian novel complete with a marriage plot. There's such rich pleasure and vulnerability in McEwan's storytelling, such style and heart in his well-honed sentences." --USA Today

"Extremely clever in both the British and American senses . . . his most cheerful book by far." --The New York Times Book Review

"McEwan has pulled off something remarkable here: Sweet Tooth is a suspenseful plot-and-character-driven novel with an unexpected postmodern twist. It's Jane Austen meets John Le Carré meets John Barth . . . [Its] delights turn out to be considerable." --The Boston Globe

"What could be a better match--Ian McEwan and a spy story? The English writer is a thinking person's best-seller, whose intelligent, tightly plotted novels, narrated in careful prose, address the pressing social and political issues of our days." --San Francisco Chronicle

"An espionage story that, at its heart, is about literature. . . . Ruminate[s] on writers, writing, and the power of stories." --Entertainment Weekly

"Spy novels often boast plenty of twists but few real surprises. Sweet Tooth, however, includes a plot development at once unpredictable and plausible. Such is McEwan's dexterity in crafting this game-changer, that not only does it mesh with the story but also enrobes what came before with an extra layer of meaning. . . . Life-affirming and almost defiantly romantic." --The Miami Herald

"An engaging book that's as much suspenseful drama as it is romantic love story." --NPR Books

"Ian McEwan's delicious new novel provides all the pleasures one has come to expect of him: pervasive intelligence, broad and deep knowledge, elegant prose, subtle wit and, by no means least, a singularly agreeable element of surprise." --Kansas City Star

"The novel's pleasures are multiple and, as always with McEwan, they begin with the storytelling." --Bloomberg Businessweek

"McEwan, a contemporary master of narrative . . . brings suspense and wit to the telling. . . . Sweet Tooth moves elegantly toward its inevitable conclusion." --The Seattle Times

"A wisecracking thriller hightailing between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in. . . . This is ultimately a book about writing, wordplay and knowingness." --The Sunday Telegraph (London)

"Thoroughly clever. . . . A sublime novel about novels, about writing them and reading them and the spying that goes on in doing both. . . . McEwan has spied on real life to write Sweet Tooth, and in reading it we are invited to spy on him. . . . Rich and enjoyable." --Financial Times

"McEwan fans won't be disappointed by Sweet Tooth, and newcomers to the author will be meeting him at the top of his game." --The Globe and Mail (Toronto)