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List Price: $14.95Amazon.com's Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781400076192
ISBN: 1400076196
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: April 11, 2006
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Sales Rank: 7966
Studio: Anchor
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Product Description:
In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement, follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne–a neurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife and grown-up children–plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderly mother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor traffic accident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must set aside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he had in order to preserve the life that is dear to him.
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To me this felt a lot like Tom Wolfe, a microcosmic view into "a day in the life of....". It is well written, thoughtful and interesting. At times you feel jealous, sad, and angry about the main character.
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This is a terrifically engaging and intelligent novel that is both meditative and pleasingly dense in vivid, narrative detail. Altough it swells with inner dialogue and deep explanation, there is deft movement to the story as it progresses from rumination to flashes of personal and potential horror and back again into the territory of character background.
The passing thoughts of the chief character, a British neurosurgeon gliding through a day off until things go awry, comprise the ... Read More
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Ian McEwan has a voluble, poetic style, with most of his writing elaborating his characters' fleeting, chaotic, but insightful thoughts. He has a way of turning a second's reflection into pages of meditation, or a day into 279 pages, so that his characters seem unusually lucid, but still the reader can see familiar branches of thought that make the characters real. At times it can be exhausting to read, but McEwan skillfully tightens his vast web of character introspection into a cohesive and powerful ... Read More
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Pass on this one, unless you wished to be bored to a new state of existence...not a pleasant one, to be sure...Worthless trivel is the mainstay of this novel...based on a stream of consciousness, it in no way approaches literary merit...Faulkner, this is not...For your own sense of well being, find another book to read...There is essentially no plot, no action, no theme, no story...Caveat emptor!!!
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This book is sooo good on many levels. The author did research for this character, the descriptions of neurosurgey were particularly fascinating for me, but also the interior thoughtlife of the doctor contemplating his life and the events of the times (the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003). This is a novel I want to make several friends read. It is very well-written and thought-provoking.
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