Saturday
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 289 pages ; 25 cm
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish in this "dazzling [and] powerful" novel ( The New York Times ).
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.
Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons .
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.
Don't miss Ian McEwan's new novel, Lessons .
Subjects:
Neurosurgeons -- Fiction.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Protest movements -- Fiction.
Traffic accidents -- Fiction.
Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
Family reunions -- Fiction.
World politics -- Fiction.
Criminals -- Fiction.
Road rage -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
Neurosurgeons -- Fiction.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Protest movements -- Fiction.
Traffic accidents -- Fiction.
Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
Family reunions -- Fiction.
World politics -- Fiction.
Criminals -- Fiction.
Road rage -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1400076196 (pbk.)
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F McEwan | Sandhills Indoors | Fiction | In |