Saturday / Ian McEwan
2005, First Edition. London : Jonathan Cape. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages; Physical desc. : 279 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: War on terrorism, 2001- - Fiction. Iraq War, 2003 - Protest movements - Fiction. London (England) - Fiction. Neurosurgeons - Fiction. Biography: Ian McEwan is the author of nine novels, including Amsterdam, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1998, and Atonement. Summary: Ian McEwan's last novel, Atonement, was hailed as a masterpiece all over the world. Saturday shares its confident, graceful prose and its remarkable perceptiveness, but is perhaps even more dramatically compelling, showing how life can change in an instant, for better or for worse. It is the work of a writer at the very height of his powers. Item #177396
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