Set in an alternative-reality version of 1980s London, the book begins as Charlie, a 32-year-old tech enthusiast, buys Adam, an artificial human-one of the first generation of “Adams” and “Eves” to hit the market. McEwan’s new novel, “Machines Like Me,” might seem worlds away from Dickens. He is the author of 17 books, six of which have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize (“Amsterdam” won in 1998) several have been adapted for film, most famously the Oscar-winning “Atonement.”Īt first glance, Mr.
McEwan among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
McEwan prefers Anthony Trollope to Dickens and considers George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, the true master of the English novel). His London flat sits in a row of converted stables, or mews, a stone’s throw from where the great 19th-century novelist wrote “Oliver Twist” and “Nicholas Nickleby” (though Mr. “Charles Dickens’s horses used to wander round here,” says the British novelist Ian McEwan, gesturing toward the alley outside his window.
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