Saturday by Ian McEwan - ISBN: 9780099469681
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One day, a doctor, a protest, and a dangerous encounter.

Saturday

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    5 January 2006

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Summary

Re-jacketed in a stunning new series style for 2023, Saturday is a gripping novel centering around the London anti-war protest in 2003 from the Booker prize-winning Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan.

‘Dazzling… Profound and urgent’ Observer

‘A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence… Everyone should read SaturdayFinancial Times

Saturday, February 15, 2003.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099469681
ISBN-10:0099469685
Author:Ian McEwan
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:5 January 2006
Weight:238g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 19mm
Series:Vintage Books
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Critics Review

Dazzling… Profound and urgent

Written with superb exactness, complex, suspenseful and humane, this novel reinforces his status as the supreme novelist of his generation * Sunday Times *It’s the good writing and the truthful and convincing way of rendering consciousness that makes Saturday so engrossing * Colm Toibin *Richly laden. McEwan pulls out all the stops. A rich book, sensuous and thoughtful. McEwan has found in Saturday the right form to showcase his dazzling talents * Sunday Telegraph *An exemplary novel… It is undoubtedly McEwan’s best * Mail on Sunday *He remains at the top of his game - assured, accomplished and ambitious * Daily Telegraph *A book of great moral maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence… Everyone should read Saturday… Artistically, morally and politically, he excels * The Times *Fabulous * The Guardian *Saturday is wonderfully involving and affecting on every page. Everybody with any interest in contemporary literature will want to read it at once * Evening Standard *A masterpiece of suspense and contemporary reflection * The Word *A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence… Everyone should read Saturday * Financial Times *

About The Author

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

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