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Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent
...novel takes place over the course of one day, Feb. 15, 2003, and follows the movements of a neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne, as he makes his way around his native London on the day of the largest anti-war demonstration England has ever seen. Perowne plays a game of squash with a colleague, muses on the operations he has recently performed, and is involved in a road accident with a man named Baxter. Later that evening, as Perowne prepares for a family meal, Baxter violently re-enters his life...
Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent
...safe to say this new book comes from a place close to home. Certainly the contented side of the neurosurgeon comes from the man who imagined him. At 56, McEwan swings up and down the stairs of his house with the ease of a man who still does his share of hiking, a passion of his. He has a Booker Prize for his 1998 novel Amsterdam, and several of his novels, including The Comfort of Strangers and Enduring Love, have beenturned into pretty good films. Moreover, judging from his descriptions of Perowne's marital bliss--"What a stroke of luck...
...Saturday, McEwan also befriended a London neurosurgeon, Neil Kitchen, and spent two years following him at the hospital, finally joining him in the operating room. What he learned is set down in long passages that describe in loving (and graphic) detail the procedures of brain surgery. Work itself is a form of heroism in this book. So is love. So is a dry-eyed realism about our fates. McEwan and Perowne are both fond of quoting Charles Darwin: "There is a grandeur in this view of life." There's a grandeur in Saturday...