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A mixed-race young woman passes for white in New York, where she has come after journalism school to work for a magazine. Put off by her live-in boyfriend's casual racism, she leaves him and moves to a Brooklyn sublet--and into the orbit of a disturbing woman named Greta, who is also of mixed race, and who becomes obsessed with the heroine, spying on her and trying to interfere in her life, until her madness culminates in a final climactic scene.
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Ian McEwan`s unusual novel takes place over the course of one day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon named Henry Perowne. Henry is both a happy man and a decent one as, on Saturday, February 15, 2003, in London, he goes about his business--shopping, interacting with his wife, enjoying the day. (George Bush is in London, and the streets are clogged with demonstrators against the Iraq war--a situation McEwan`s hero confronts with a rather skeptical eye.) Henry meets up with a mugger named Baxter who, he immediately recognizes, has the degenerative disease Huntington`s chorea. Later, when Henry is back home with his family, Baxter turns up again, and this time he is even more threatening. Without sentimentality or preachiness, McEwan provides a picture of a good man living in a complicated world, and of the small acts of kindness and judgment that make the small differences that add up in welcome but unexpected ways.
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Sheriff Dale Townsend is confused. He found a man armed with two knives standing over the body of Angela Lamond. Angela has been stabbed to death, and Dale thinks the case is closed until he learns that there are no traces of blood, and no fingerprints, on the knives. Is this mysterious stranger Angela Lamond's killer or is there a far more sinister plot afoot? Stumped, Dale turns to his old friend Alex Rourke, a former FBI agent now working as a private detective. Will Alex be able to help Dale unravel the mystery of this very strange murder?
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Ian McEwan`s unusual novel takes place over the course of one day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon named Henry Perowne. Henry is both a happy man and a decent one as, on Saturday, February 15, 2003, in London, he goes about his business--shopping, interacting with his wife, enjoying the day. (George Bush is in London, and the streets are clogged with demonstrators against the Iraq war--a situation McEwan`s hero confronts with a rather skeptical eye.) Henry meets up with a mugger named Baxter who, he immediately recognizes, has the degenerative disease Huntington`s chorea. Later, when Henry is back home with his family, Baxter turns up again, and this time he is even more threatening. Without sentimentality or preachiness, McEwan provides a picture of a good man living in a complicated world, and of the small acts of kindness and judgment that make the small differences that add up in welcome but unexpected ways.
Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005.
For personal use only.
All rights reserved.