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Description: ISBN 1400076196 / Author: Ian McEwan / Genre: Fiction / Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful ... more
Saturday - Ian McEwan ... neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind, a newspaper lawyer, and proud father of two grown-up children, one a promising poet, the other a talented blues musician. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city, its openness and diversity, and his happy family life are under threat. Later, 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. Towards the end of a day rich in incident and filled with Perowne's celebrations of life's pleasures - music, food, love, the exhilarations of sport and the satisfactions of exacting work - his family gathers for a reunion. But with the sudden appearance of Baxter, Perowne's earlier fears seem about to be realised. Ian McEwan's last novel, Atonement, was hailed as a masterpiece all over the world. Saturday shares its confident, graceful prose and its remarkable perceptiveness, but is perhaps even more dramatically compelling, showing how life can change in an instant, for better or for worse. It is the work of a writer at the very height of his powers.

Newest Review: ... and the fear of street violence. In order to confront these anxieties Perowne puts his belief in science rather than some ... more

 ... non-benevolent God. He trusts his own skills as a neurosurgeon in order to assert some kind of control over events in his own life. Henry is a successful neurosurgeon living in London. He lives with his successful wife Rosalind, a newspaper lawyer, and his son Theo, who just happens to be an awfully good blues guitarist in a blues band that is no doubt on the road to success. We are introduced later to his daughter an Oxford graduate who has just won a major poetry competition and has had her first works published. Her...more

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Premium Review Saturday - Ian McEwan: TIME STOOD STILL ON SATURDAY. (1163 words)
by - written on 05/11/06 (Very useful, 189 readings)
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I am reviewing ‘Saturday’ by Ian McEwan.My copy I borrowed from my Dad, but I had a little look on the net, and copies were available for £13.99. Mr McEwan has written several novels before, including The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love. This is the first one of his that I have come across, so I cannot compare Saturday to any of his others. The copy I have is hard back, and shows the same picture as the one above. The Story. ------------- Henry Perowne is a successful neurosurgeon in London. He lives with his wife Rosalind, a newspaper lawyer, and his son Theo, a guitarist in a blues band. The story is about a ...  Read the complete review

MagdaDH
Premium Review "If he was called to create a religion, he would make use of ... (1045 words)
by - written on 10/04/06 (Very useful, 213 readings)
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***Please note this review had been posted before in the genral McEwan category, now removed from there and reposted in it's correct place*** Henry Perowne is firmly on the side of reason: a neurosurgeon by profession, an evolutionist by philosophy, coming clearly from the science side of the great divide; perhaps more than even a physicist would as medicine today is a technology of the body and rarely allows for the quasi-mystical awe that modern physics or cosmology might inspire. He`s not without his artistic side but that is definitely secondary, fully realised only in his children: a poet and a musician, vaguely representative of the apollonian and ...  Read the complete review

sheri3004
Premium Review Saturday - Ian McEwan: Regarding Henry (823 words)
by - written on 20/01/06 (Very useful, 1606 readings)
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Ian McEwan’s tenth novel describes one Saturday – February 15th, 2003, to be precise - in the life of Henry Perowne –forty-eight years old, consultant neurosurgeon, loving husband and father. Henry’s thoughts and actions over the course of this day , which include mundane activities – playing squash, visiting his mother, making a fish stew – as well as some more dramatic occurrences, are all rendered in loving detail by McEwan, setting down the textures of everyday life in a way which is both absorbing and believable. Although the novel takes place over just one day, we learn a great deal in the course of it about Henry, his family and his background. ...  Read the complete review

Zmugzy
Premium Review Surgical Strike Fails to Explode (991 words)
by - written on 13/02/07 (Very useful, 508 readings)
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This is the first book I have read by Ian McEwan so I can not make an immediate comparison with his previous efforts. 'Saturday' is one of those novels in which the whole story takes place in a single day. It begins in the early hours of the morning with McEwan's main protagonist Henry Perowne staring out of his bedroom window and witnessing the descent of a plane with burning fuselage heading towards a London airport. Perowne ponders on the fate of passengers on the plane, their chances of survival, and how their lives may be changed or ended by this event. This sets up the leitmotif that runs throughout the story; the contingencies of everyday life and the random ...  Read the complete review

melee679
Premium Review Saturday - Ian McEwan: A day in the life (547 words)
by - written on 13/01/06 (Very useful, 194 readings)
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Saturday is a snap shot of a novel. It's a life, a family, a city, a country, a world - all wrapped up and neatly presented as the day in the life of one man. It deals with twenty four hours in the shoes of one man, when simple everyday events threaten to collapse the central structure of his life. Henry Perowne is a good man. A fine neurosurgeon, a good father and husband. His mind thrives on logic and explanations, and this leads him to analyse every part of the world around him. The book begins with a restless night, insomnia that drives him to the window, where he thinks he sees something horrific happening in the night sky. This is the London of today - ...  Read the complete review

 

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