![]() ![]() His latest novel, Saturday, takes place during one single day of a neurosurgeons life. He follows her instruction without complaint, but when he is unimpressed by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Daisy tells him that the novel is designed to reveal the damage done by men like him, although it is unclear whether we are supposed to take this as a daughter's facetiousness or the author's connection of Perowne with Flaubert's Charles Bovary. Ian McEwan is the author of the best-selling novel Atonement. Spend a Lovely Saturday in London, Ottawa Sun, 19 March 2005: 45. Interview with Ian McEwan, NPR Weekend Edition, 19 March 2005 Listen to the interview online via the NPR Website. He is close to both his children, although his daughter Daisy, an aspiring poet who ‘wears short-skirted business suits and fresh white blouses, and rarely drinks and does her best work before 9am’, considers him ignorant and insensitive, and is trying to rectify these shortcomings by giving him a reading list including Darwin and Conrad. My City Square: Happiness Is a Hard Nut to Crack, The Telegraph (Calcutta, India), 18 March 2005. ![]() He is a down-to-earth sort, an atheist who finds quantum physics far-fetched. His latest novel, Saturday, concerns one day in the life of Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon with strange hands. ![]() He seems less egotistical and self-satisfied than other big names from his generation, and among his many considerable achievements is at least one cast-iron classic, The Comfort of Strangers. Only one of his ten novels is less than satisfactory, and it's not his fault that that book won the Booker Prize. ![]()
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