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Saturday by Ian McEwan (2005, Hardcover) | ||
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| Item condition: | Very Good | |
| Ended: | Feb 23, 201209:32:44 PST | |
| Price: | US $4.00 | |
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| Item location: | Littleton, CO, United States | |
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| Synopsis Ian McEwan's unusual novel takes place over the course of one day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon named Henry Perowne--a happy man and a decent one. On Saturday, February 15, 2003, in London, he goes about his business--shopping, interacting with his wife, enjoying the day. (George Bush is in London, and the streets are clogged with demonstrators against the Iraq war--a situation McEwan's hero confronts with a rather skeptical eye.) Henry meets up with a mugger named Baxter who, he immediately recognizes, has the degenerative disease Huntington's chorea. Later, when Henry is back home with his family, Baxter turns up again, and this time he is even more threatening. Without sentimentality or preachiness, McEwan provides a picture of a good man living in a complicated world, and of the small acts of kindness and judgment that make the small differences that add up in welcome but unexpected ways. Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2005 by the New York Times.
Publisher's Note Saturday is a novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man — a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children, who are young adults. Henry wakes to the relative comfort of his home on this, his day off. He is almost as comfortable here as he is in the operating room. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before and his children are now grown and making their way into this world as adults. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne’s day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary: from an unusual sighting in the early morning sky to his usual squash game, and from trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of war protestors filling the streets of London, to a seemingly minor car accident. Ian McEwan has written a masterful novel that keeps you balanced on the edge of your seat as Perowne’s happy safe world is unexpectedly shattered. At the heart of this extraordinary novel is the acute awareness of the details of our relationships, of life and of love, and the unforeseen violence that can threaten our peace. A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident, an encounter that has savage consequences. Industry Reviews Times Literary Supplement - Theo Tait (02/11/2005) Publishers Weekly (01/31/2005) Kirkus Reviews (01/15/2005) New Republic - James Wood (04/18/2005) Nation - Lee Siegel (04/11/2005) Entertainment Weekly (04/08/2005) Slate - Stephen Metcalf (03/30/2005) New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (03/18/2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
All rights reserved.Some shelf wear on cover. Book in excellent condition with no markings, highlighting or underlining. Pages have deckle edging. FREE immediate media mail shipping. |
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