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Saturday by Ian McEwan; 3M Company is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A masterful Ian McEwan explores the incredible fragility of existence, as he charts one hugely eventful day in the life of a middle-aged neurosurgeon.Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London dawn. His unease grows throughout the day as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-9/11 streets. A minor car accident leads to a meeting with Baxter, who to Perowne’s professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell. And when Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home all Henry’s earlier fears seem about to be realised..."None of this is in itself remarkable, but McEwan’s examination of the minute workings of conscience and personality is thrillingly shrewd... In other hands, this could become maddeningly flashy, a torrent of clever aperçus and topical graffiti. But McEwan’s style has long been skewed towards understatement; even when he’s itemising the details of a craniotomy. In Saturday he is at his best - thoughtful, eloquent, yet restrained. The novel has all the technical assurance of its predecessors and suggests as well a newly political sensibility and seduc

Who reads Saturday?

Author

Ian McEwan; 3M Company

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780099469681

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (2,048 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14