![]() The opening paragraph signals the trajectory of the narrative, as is conventional in a first-person account. ![]() Here design has to do less with the intriguing behaviour of the characters (what are these people really up to?) than with the genesis of the narration. ![]() With what is sometimes called a postmodernist novel, our sense of purpose is rather different. Our usual word for this is "plot", to whose pleasures we succumb when we recognise the signs of a concealed – but slowly revealed – design in a novel. So it is with Sweet Tooth: the sense of narrative purpose exerts its pull from the first. W hat makes a novel gripping? Many readers will know the experience of setting out on the latest Ian McEwan novel and feeling caught – compelled. ![]()
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