Word: happinesss
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...McEwan followed his 2001 masterpiece Atonement with this robust meditation on evil, fear and ? unusual for him ? on happinesss, too. His main character is Henry Perowne, a prosperous London neurosurgeon with a loving family and a handsome townhouse. In all, he's a contented man, or he would be if his well being weren't edged with the anxieties that trouble us all after 9/11. On the single day in which this book takes place, with the streets of London jammed by a massive demonstration against the impending Iraq war, he crosses paths with a belligerent stranger. Before this haunting...
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