Ian McEwan

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Saturday

Beschreibung

Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane â ablaze with fire like a meteor â arcing across the London sky. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henryâ s earlier fears seem about to be realised...

Autor

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 718932, 789430
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780099469681
• ISBN-10: 0099469685
• Artikelnr.: 22103814

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Written with superb exactness, complex, suspenseful and humane, this novel reinforces his status as the supreme novelist of his generation Sunday Times