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Article: Day-tripper: the mundane raptures of Ian McEwan.(Saturday)(Book Review)
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- Harper's Magazine
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- May 1, 2005
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Saturday, by Ian McEwan. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005. 289 pages. $26.
Ian McEwan is a writer for whom critical praise and commercial success seem to come with a polished ease. His ninth novel, Atonement, published in 2001, earned the favor of both reviewers and readers, who lauded McEwan's exquisite prose, the satisfying narrative, and the element of formal ambition revealed at the novel's end. Born in England in 1948, McEwan had already established himself there as the leading light of a generation that began scribbling in the 1970s, avoiding, as he did, the manic excesses of Martin Amis while navigating his way around the ...