Saturday (35 page)

 

 

Saturday

The #1 National Bestseller

‘
Saturday
is thoughtful, finely written, rich in detail and analysis, a portrait of a living mind.'

—
The Gazette
(Montreal)

‘A stunning novel, its subtle depth surprisingly affecting, its voice both warm and troubled.'

—
Chicago Sun-Times

‘[McEwan] remains at the top of his game—assured, accomplished and ambitious…. [
Saturday
] offers something transcendent, impossible to dissect.'

—
The Daily Telegraph

‘McEwan's superb novel amply demonstrates how good fiction, by dramatising unwieldy and fraught ideas in a deeply personal narrative, can fashion the world into gobbets sometimes more digestible than factual reportage.'

—
The Independent

‘It's the good writing and the truthful and convincing way of rendering consciousness that makes Ian McEwan's
Saturday
so engrossing, keeping me awake like a mystery thriller.'

—Colm Tóibín,
Sunday Times

‘In
Saturday
[McEwan] 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 a seductive, Joycean attention to the textures of normality.'

—
Financial Times

‘
Saturday
is a brilliant novel about post–9/11 Britain, about the fragility of middle-class liberal values and assumptions, and the escalating vulnerability of our small, democratic island. It is McEwan writing in absolute top form.'

—
Daily Mail

‘An exemplary novel, engrossing and sustained. It is undoubtedly McEwan's best.'

—Anita Brookner,
The Spectator

 

VINTAGE CANADA EDITION, 2006

Copyright © 2005 Ian McEwan

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Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2006. Originally published in hard-cover in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, and simultaneously in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, a division of Random House, London, in 2005. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to Faber & Faber for permission to reprint an extract from ‘Water' by Philip Larkin from
The Whitsun Weddings
.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

McEwan, Ian
Saturday / Ian McEwan.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37122-5

I. Title.

PR6063.C4S38 2006     823'.914     C2005-905089-6

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