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Rent Saturday
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Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: Mar 2005
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Discs: 9
Synopsis
Saturday is a novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man--a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children, who are young adults. What troubles him is the state of the world--the impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne makes his way to his usual squash game with his an
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