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At the end of saturday s first paragraph, as henry wakes too early, mcewan writes, and hes entirely himself, he is certain of it, and he knows that sleep is behind him. He could write out his shopping list and i would read it. Solar, winner of the bollinger everyman wodehouse prize. The saturday is 15 february, 2003, the day on which hundreds of thousands would march in the capital in protest against the proposed war against iraq, the teeming masses a.
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