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Article: Ian McEwan follows 'Atonement' with a novel about a Londoner in the mayhem leading up to the Iraq war
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- March 18, 2005
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THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-18-2005
Dateline: LONDON
When Ian McEwan sat down to write his new novel, he faced two obvious challenges: living up to "Atonement," his runaway best seller, and using fiction to somehow capture the world's anxieties in the aftermath of 9/11 and the buildup to the Iraq invasion.
But he also was tired of being characterized as the "bad boy" of literary fiction, an author whose complex, page-turning explorations of tragic characters reflected the low points of his own life.
So the 56-year-old writer took several unusual steps with "Saturday" that may surprise his fans. His new novel is the most autobiographical he has ever written _ a ...
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