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Research Article | Open Access
Volume 14 2022 | None
AMALGAMATION OF INGENUITY AND ERUDICTION IN IAN McEwan’s NOVEL SATURDAY.
P. KAVITHA, Dr. S. Soumia
Pages: 2486-2489
Abstract
The 2005 Man Booker Prize long list included Saturday by Ian McEwan, which also received a nomination for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction. Accordingly, it has been referred to as "This season's most discussed novel...McEwan, again and again, proves his virtuosity," according to National Post. Wars, politicians, and terrorists coexist with personal satisfaction in McEwan's writing. Personal joy is appropriated by McEwan, reincorporated into serious literature, and made, at least temporarily, his exclusive literary property. The book takes place on Saturday, February 15, 2003, while a sizable protest against the 2003 American invasion of Iraq is taking place in Fitzrovia, downtown London. The main character, 48-year-old neurosurgeon Henry Perowne, has organized a sequence of activities and pleasures that will conclude with a family meal in the evening. He muses over the protest's significance and the issues that motivated it as he goes about his day, but the day is ruined by a run-in with Baxter, a violent and unstable guy. Rosalind, Henry's wife, is a kind and considerate lawyer. She is a devoted wife and the mother of Daisy Perowne, a young poet with a distinct sense of style and a strong personality, and Theo Perowne, a great guitarist and aspiring blues musician. Daisy's grandfather and Henry's father-in-law, John Grammaticus, had a significant impact on both Daisy's literary growth and her tenacity. He has influenced Theo's and Daisy's life through music and poetry, respectively.
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The 2005 Man Booker Prize long list included Saturday by Ian McEwan, which also received a nomination for the James Tait Black Prize for fiction.
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