Saturday

novel by McEwan

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discussed in biography

  • Ian McEwan
    In Ian McEwan

    Dalloway (1925) is evident in Saturday (2005), a vivid depiction of London on February 15, 2003, a day of mass demonstrations against the incipient war in Iraq. On Chesil Beach (2007; film 2017) describes the awkwardness felt by two virgins on their wedding night. Climate change is the subject of…

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English literature

  • Beowulf
    In English literature: The 21st century

    In Saturday (2005), the model of Virginia Woolf’s fictional presentation of a war-shadowed day in London in Mrs. Dalloway (1925) stood behind McEwan’s vivid depiction of that city on February 15, 2003, a day of mass demonstrations against the impending war in Iraq. Heaney continued to…

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