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Title: It's satire folks!
Review: Many reviewers don't seem to get what McEwan is doing here. The first, tightly written first section (highly praised by most reviewers) is McEwan writing. The rest (roundly criticized by many) is satire. It is Briony writing in the overblown style we are warned to expect in the first section. The trick McEwan has to pull-off is to make Briony's writing sufficiently readable to drag the reader through to the final denouement. In my view his attempt at satire fails. It is too over the top and too long!
