At the center of Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam is Molly Lane, or rather her ghost. Molly was a journalist and bon vivant whose many lovers, not all of whom are on good terms, come together at her funeral. Among these are Vernon Halliday, […]
Ian McEwan’s Saturday
by March 31, 2014
on At the heart of Ian McEwan’s Saturday is successful neurosurgeon and loving husband and father Henry Perowne, whose supremely rational worldview McEwan uses, almost excessively, as a springboard to incorporate into the narrative broader philosophical musings about concepts as varied as free […]