Details
Saturday
8,49 € |
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Verlag: | Vintage Digital |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 11.03.2010 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781409090083 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 304 |
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Beschreibungen
Dazzling... Profound and urgent Observer A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday Financial TimesSaturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane ablaze with fire like a meteor arcing across the London sky. Over the course of the following day, unease gathers about Perowne, as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-9/11 streets. A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive man, who to Perowne s professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry s earlier fears seem about to be realised...