Volume 52, Number 9 · May 26, 2005
A Day in the Life
By John Banville
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 289 pp., $26.00
'Most novel readers,' the critic John Bayley observes, 'are less interested in life itself than in its happenings, money-making, love-making, committee-sitting, being young, growing old'—in other words, stories. In all of us there persists the child who longs to snuggle down and draw the covers close and hear a fairy tale, the scarier the better, so long as it ends with the promise that the good people in it will live happily ever after while the bad perish in misery and in pain.
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