06762cam a2200457 4500 239814783 TxAuBib 20140810120000.0 ||||||s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307277015 0307277011 B000PDZFKC Amazon d72eb7a2-cd02-4d1e-a597-9cce510b12c5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 111390 78599 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McEwan, Ian. Saturday [Bridges eBook]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 1246kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 412kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:"Dazzling. . . . Powerful. . . . McEwan has shown how we . . . live today." --The New York Times"Finely wrought and shimmering with intelligence." --The New York Times Book Review"McEwan is supremely gifted. . . . Saturday is a tightly wound tour de force." --The Washington Post Book World"This extraordinary book is not a political novel. It is a novel about consciousness that illuminates the sources of politics." --The Nation"Saturday is an exemplary novel, engrossing and sustained. It is undoubtedly McEwan's best." --The Spectator"Read the last 100 pages at one sitting--the pace and the thrill allow it. . . . Exhilarating." --Los Angeles Times Book Review"Virtuosic. . . . Brilliantly macabre and suspenseful. . . . [A] fine novel." --The Wall Street Journal"McEwan is in the first tier of novelists writing in English today. . . . He has achieved a complete mastery of his craft." --The New York Observer"This is McEwan at the height of his powers. . . . More audacious than Atonement." --The Baltimore Sun"In Saturday, the marvelously gifted Ian McEwan turns a single day into nearly twenty-four hours emblematic of an entire era." --Chicago Tribune"One of the most powerful pieces of post--9/11 fiction yet published." --The New York Times"Complex, suspenseful. . . . This novel . . . reinforces Ian McEwan's status as the supreme novelist of his generation." --The Sunday Times (London)"Engrossing. . . . A thoughtful, measured and mature look at our world today. . . . [McEwan's] skill at weaving together suspense, psychological depth and beautiful prose makes him among Britain's best." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A major event. . . . Saturday proceeds serenely into very different territory where the most secure existence is ringed by sinister possibilities." --Time"Thoroughly fascinating. . . . For sheer intelligence and skill, it's hard to beat Ian McEwan's Saturday." --The Philadelphia Inquirer"Impeccable. . . . Beautifully crafted. . . . Fluid, richly textured. . . . Engrossing." --Entertainment Weekly"Read this book. . . . On the level of the sentence, McEwan is smart, witty and insightful. . . . His writing astounds. . . . Saturday is almost too good to bear." --The Times-Picayune"Utterly enthralling. . . . Stunningly orderly and harmonious." --The Seattle Times"Magnificently imagined." --San Francisco Chronicle"A brilliant work. . . . Astoundingly enjoyable." --O, The Oprah Magazine"McEwan's special achievement . . . is not only to give his narrative . . . near-hallucinatory clarity and verisimilitude, but also to make you realize that the world of his novel is our world. It's a book of poignant insight into the temper of the times. . . . And it's something rare and precious: a wise book." --San Jose Mercury News"Hypnotic. . . . Exquisitely detailed, rich and suspenseful, literate and surprisingly explosive." --The Miami Herald"McEwan's sentences are perfect, and his novels are always powerful and intelligent." --People"Sober yet scintillating. . . . Lucidly shows us that civilization and culture and the life of the mind, fragile as they seemingly are, nonetheless have a resilience that can outlast barbarism." --Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly"A magnificent new novel that captures both the comforts and the anxieties of the world we live in right now." --Vogue"The distinctive achievement of McEwan's work has been to marry literary seriousness and ambition with a pace and momentum more commonly associated with genre fiction. He is the master.... HTML:The Denver Post. HTML: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. From the Trade Paperback edition.. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Man Booker Prize for Fiction Nominee. 10 Best Books of 2005. 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