She later told her son-in-law that she was seated in an invisible corner and given the dullest correspondence. The rest of the page begins the back story of Alissa’s mother, Jane: born in 1920, educated in a grammar school, and by the end of the page nursing literary ambitions working as a part-time typist at Cyril Connolly’s prestigious literary magazine Horizon (a real magazine): Later still, that account is confirmed by Alissa herself. McEwan delivers on this tease later when Roland hears the mother’s account of that row, which is quite different from what he imagines. begins with his wondering why she is visiting her parents and imagining that if she tells them what she has done, ‘the row would be like no other’. He has received a couple of postcards from European addresses, the most recent saying she is about to visit her parents in Germany. It’s mainly a minor character’s backstory.īy this stage of the novel, the main character, Roland Baines, has been abandoned by his wife, Alissa, with no warning and no real word of explanation, leaving him to care for their infant son. Of Lessons would probably have a red line drawn through it by someone writing a film script.
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