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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780385511803
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 0385511809
Item Dimensions: 111950131642
Label: Nan A. Talese
Manufacturer: Nan A. Talese
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 289
Publication Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Studio: Nan A. Talese
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
From the pen of a master — the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Atonement — comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
Saturday is a masterful 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. Henry wakes to the comfort of his large home in central London on this, his day off. He is as at ease 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.
On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne’s day moves through the ordinary to the extraordinary. After an unusual sighting in the early morning sky, he makes his way to his regular squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousands of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug. To Perowne’s professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man, who in turn believes the surgeon has humiliated him — with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep his family alive.
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For those of "a certain age," mortality begins to come into view. With his career goals attained and his two children launched, the fleeting nature of life in a tumultuous political world of post-9/11 increasingly informs all the thoughts and actions of the neurosurgeon protagonist of this short novel. McEwan's introspective style and his superb character development are McEwan's trademarks, and this is one of his best. A tome for those who prefer John le Carre' over Ian Fleming.
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Henry Perowne is a successful neurosurgeon who not only expertly deals with diseases of the mind but strives to understand the nature of his own mental processes - his fears and conflicts - through self analysis and reflection, by reviewing his past and relating it to the present. He awakens late at night and stands naked at a window while his wife continues sleeping, observing the scene outside, and at the same time reflecting about life with his wife, daughter and son, his life as a surgeon, his ... Read More
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Saturday is one of the most tedious novels I've had the misfortune to read in years. I loved the first half of McEwan's Atonement, though I felt the second half was ruined by too many repetitive war and hospital scenes, and a subtle shift in narrative that struck me as forced. Saturday, however, is composed of nothing but pointless detail (if you like descriptions of a man going to the bathroom, flushing, and choosing socks, this is the book for you) and conflict that leads nowhere and results in ... Read More
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I'm not going to waste another precious minute on this book. My opinion is in the heading.
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To start, I have read some of McEwan's novels and quite enjoyed them.
Secondly, as in the review title, it doesn't quite reach the pits of Amsterdam (a poorly constructed sliver of a a book with insufficient characterization and not nearly enough about it to achieve anything near the suspension of disbelief necessary to carry the improbable plot line).
This book falls into the category of those McEwan books where he's aimed for something like high art and fallen somewhat flat ... Read More
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