![]() ![]() ![]() If this novel is not as complex a work as McEwan's bestselling Atonement The tension throughout the novel between science (Perowne's surgery) and art (his daughter is a poet his son a musician) culminates in a synthesis of the two, and a grave, hopeful, meaningful, transcendent ending. It is during the latter event, at the end of the day, that the ominous pall that has hovered over the narrative explodes into violence, and Perowne's sense that the world has become "a commuity of anxiety" plays out in suspense, delusion, heroism and reconciliation. His cerebral peregrination records, in turn, the meticulous details of brain surgery, a car accident followed by a confrontation with a hoodlum, a far-from-routine squash game, a visit to Perowne's mother in a nursing home and a family reunion. Meanwhile, the reader follows Perowne through his day, mainly via an interior monologue. , turns out to be a harbinger of a world forever changed. ![]() Eventually, danger to Perowne and his family will come from another source, but the plane, like the balloon in the first scene of Enduring Love His first thought is terrorism-especially since this is the day of a public demonstration against the pending Iraq war. In the predawn sky on a Saturday morning, London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne sees a plane with a wing afire streaking toward Heathrow. ![]()
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