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Saturday
Ian McEwan
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Description for Saturday
Paperback. Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 248.
'Dazzling... Profound and urgent' Observer
'A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday' Financial Times
Saturday, February 15, 2003.
Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky. Over the course of the following day, unease gathers about Perowne, as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-9/11 streets.
A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099469681
SKU
V9780099469681
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Ref
99-97
About Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On ... Read more
Reviews for Saturday
Written with superb exactness, complex, suspenseful and humane, this novel reinforces his status as the supreme novelist of his generation
Sunday Times
It's the good writing and the truthful and convincing way of rendering consciousness that makes Saturday so engrossing
Colm Toibin
Richly laden. McEwan pulls out all the stops. A rich book, sensuous and thoughtful. ... Read more
Sunday Times
It's the good writing and the truthful and convincing way of rendering consciousness that makes Saturday so engrossing
Colm Toibin
Richly laden. McEwan pulls out all the stops. A rich book, sensuous and thoughtful. ... Read more