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Ian McEwan's 'Saturday'

Alan Cheuse reviews British novelist Ian McEwan's Saturday, about 24 hours in the life of a London neurosurgeon, against the backdrop of the impending war in Iraq.

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Alan Cheuse
Alan Cheuse died on July 31, 2015. He had been in a car accident in California earlier in the month. He was 75. Listen to NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamburg's retrospective on his life and career.
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