Point Books Concering Saturday
| Original Title: | Saturday |
| ISBN: | 1400076196 (ISBN13: 9781400076192) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Henry Perowne |
| Setting: | London, England,2003(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2005), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2005) |
Ian McEwan
Paperback | Pages: 289 pages Rating: 3.63 | 58313 Users | 3909 Reviews
Description Supposing Books Saturday
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.
Specify Containing Books Saturday
| Title | : | Saturday |
| Author | : | Ian McEwan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 289 pages |
| Published | : | April 11th 2006 by Anchor (first published February 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literature. European Literature. British Literature. Novels. Literary Fiction. Adult Fiction |
Rating Containing Books Saturday
Ratings: 3.63 From 58313 Users | 3909 ReviewsDiscuss Containing Books Saturday
I loved this book! This is not a book for you if youre looking for entertainment only, or light reading. This is a book full of layers, metaphors, parallels, & issues to think about. The thing that most reached out & grabbed me was the idea of a man going about his daily life (whether you find his daily life mundane or overly privileged or whatever), when unexpected events occur & change everything. Thats always sort of a scary theme for me! On the surface its the story of Henry, aI hated this book. He's a great writer but this was pure bullshit. The best doctor in London married to the best lawyer in London, their kids a world class guitarist and a world class poet, the grandfather a world class poet too and even the goddamn grandmother was a channel swimmer. Isn't there one damn slacker in the whole group? Just one fat daughter who dated a criminal amputee and worked at the 7-11? please? I believed this book for a fast 2.5 seconds. Every punch is pulled. I wanted the
I found this book: Saturday by Ian McEwan.Then I read it.Things happened, some exciting and some less so, nothing of super consequence. I finished the book. I put it away and forgot about it.I then went on to another book.That's my reading experience and that's the arc of Saturday. It's a "day in the life of" short story dragged out into novel length. Granted there's plenty packed into that day and it's admirably juggled by McEwan.The main character is accosted. He happens to be a doctor and
For me, one-star ratings are extremely rare. & this is, without a doubt, one of the worst books... Ever! The titular day is a bland array of stupid events that fill up a stupid life. The neurosurgeon atop his manse contemplates the plague of humanity living right below him (commoners, proletarians, drug addicts) all the while believing that his own existence is worthwhile as he parades around all the perks of being rich in a modern-day luxurious London. I detested this neo-bourgeoisie
My star rating of "Saturday" is a reminder of the days when I still liked his writing style enough to give him the benefit of my suppressed doubt. I will let those stars remain shining here to remember what kind of strange magnetic power this author has to make me try, again and again, to discover the evasive genius that seems to be hiding just around the next sentence...I do hold a personal grudge against one of the last scenes in "Saturday" though. I have never been able to fully forget the
Rare is the author who can write a compelling story in clear prose. Rarer still is the author who can create fine and distinct layers of meaning while maintaining that clear narrative. Ian McEwan is one of those authors. In the tradition of "Mrs. Dalloway," "Saturday" traces the ordinary activities of an ordinary man, neurologist Henry Preowne. Against the backdrop of a huge anti-war march in London, Henry goes about his daily activities -- a squash game, checking in on his patients at the
Some books just hit you with the full blunt anarchical force of a powerful dream.Or like 9/11 itself.This out-of-the-way novel by the incredible British writer Ian McEwan represented what was for me - in the years following upon the annihilation of all my delicate presuppositions on that cataclysmic but classically Indian-Summer day in 2001 - a savage indictment of my standard middle-class mores.For it was exactly the same thing for Dr. Henry Perowne.And four years after that landmark day, I was
0 Comments