Ten Years of Fiction and Lapping Up Fantasies ; and Incidentally
Evening Standard - London › May 09, 2007
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WHO WILL be remembered as the pre-eminent zeitgeist novelist of the Blair era? If Martin Amis's Money defined the 1980s with its portrait of rapacious Thatcherite Britain, then Ian McEwan's novel Saturday could arguably be seen as emblematic of the Blair decade. The novel unfolds over the course of one Saturday, 15 February 2003, during the antiwar demonstration in London.
On its publication it immediately struck a chord with readers: the book captured the heightened sense of menace which has permeated Western cities since 9/11. On waking up, the hero's initial euphoria disappears when he sees a plane through his window, trailing fire.See the full content of this document
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Ten Years of Fiction and Lapping Up Fantasies ; and Incidentally
A bomb? A hijacking? McEwan shows how terrorism has infused our consciousness and his book ...
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