Lesson ian mcewan6/9/2023 T he jokes began in March 2020: what would come first, a vaccine or Ian McEwan’s pandemic novel? His reputation for topical fiction, hardly an obvious destination when he first broke out in the 1970s with grisly tales of incest, bestiality and paedophilia, owes everything to Saturday (2005), which mulled the pros and cons of invading Iraq through the eyes of a bouillabaisse-simmering neurosurgeon in London: a strenuous yoking of spheres that spoke of nothing so much as the pressure McEwan felt to catch the moment, especially since the book’s acknowledgments made clear he’d been shadowing a brain doctor long before the events the book portrayed.
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