Saturday
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One of the "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
Hardcover Edition
As McEwan writers, “When anything can happen, everything matters.” Saturday magnifies a pivotal moment in history and a day in a man’s life as secure foundations crack and uncertainty rushes in. While critics cited different overriding themes, Saturday explores ideas of fate and purpose, life’s fragility, revelation, and terror at all levels of society. McEwan, an enduring talent in Britain combines “literary seriousness” with a “momentum more commonly associated with genre fiction.” The result is an intricate, captivating novel defined by a “serene tension” that erupts into a dark reality despite its hero’s optimism (New York Times Book Review).
McEwan brilliantly builds many layers of reality from small details. Henry-a sympathetic, if conflicted, character-knows he can examine people’s brains, but not understand their minds. His ruminations on surgery, lovemaking, music, war (he’s pro-war), and literature (he’s clueless) rise to a crescendo as he slowly questions his own motives and actions. In dazzling, authoritative prose, McEwan depicts this growing anxiety with a calmness that is soon violated.
Hardcover Edition
As McEwan writers, “When anything can happen, everything matters.” Saturday magnifies a pivotal moment in history and a day in a man’s life as secure foundations crack and uncertainty rushes in. While critics cited different overriding themes, Saturday explores ideas of fate and purpose, life’s fragility, revelation, and terror at all levels of society. McEwan, an enduring talent in Britain combines “literary seriousness” with a “momentum more commonly associated with genre fiction.” The result is an intricate, captivating novel defined by a “serene tension” that erupts into a dark reality despite its hero’s optimism (New York Times Book Review).
McEwan brilliantly builds many layers of reality from small details. Henry-a sympathetic, if conflicted, character-knows he can examine people’s brains, but not understand their minds. His ruminations on surgery, lovemaking, music, war (he’s pro-war), and literature (he’s clueless) rise to a crescendo as he slowly questions his own motives and actions. In dazzling, authoritative prose, McEwan depicts this growing anxiety with a calmness that is soon violated.
I really enjoyed this book. The slow build up had me enthralled. Most of all I was touched by the love that Henry has for his wife.
Journal Entry 3 by liz-z at Bookbox in Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, May 31, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (5/31/2007 UTC) at Bookbox in Book Box, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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This will be traveling with Tribefan's Books I've Actually Read Bookbox #2
I really enjoyed this book and I hope the next reader will as well.
This will be traveling with Tribefan's Books I've Actually Read Bookbox #2
I really enjoyed this book and I hope the next reader will as well.
Glad to have a copy of this. I also have Atonement on Mt. TBR. I've heard so much about this author.
I probably shouldn't have read this so soon after reading Atonement, which was a far superior book. Still, I felt this book had something important to say about a moment in time between 9/11 and the start of the Iraq war. The protagonist is incredibly privileged, so much so that reading about him is sort of annoying. He's a brain surgeon, married to a beautiful, successful lawyer in a loving and perfect marriage, with two perfect, talented children: a poet daughter and jazz musician son. Yet, the slow build up of the day in his life and the reflection on the way in which world events color the personal lives of everyone was a powerful message. Recommended for McEwan fans. Those new to his writing should read Atonement instead.
Mailed to jlautner from the bookstogive General Literature VBB. Enjoy!
Arrived in the mail yesterday. Thank you!
I thought I had read this but I see no journal entry. I might get to it before someone in bookstogive's book box requests it. We'll see.
One day in the life of surgeon Henry Perowne. Comfortably settled in London, he is nevertheless beset by fears about the state of the world. It is 2003.
We follow Henry as he goes through his day, up to the dramatic good night.
I read this some time ago and cannot remember details, only that I liked it and it was quick and easy to read.
We follow Henry as he goes through his day, up to the dramatic good night.
I read this some time ago and cannot remember details, only that I liked it and it was quick and easy to read.
Journal Entry 10 by jlautner at Little Free Library at 275 Delta Waters Street in Henderson, Nevada USA on Thursday, September 7, 2023
Released 6 mos ago (9/7/2023 UTC) at Little Free Library at 275 Delta Waters Street in Henderson, Nevada USA
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