Enduring Love - Ian McEwan

Enduring Love

By Ian McEwan

  • Release Date: 1998-01-20
  • Genre: Romantic Suspense
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 64 Ratings
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Description

From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—a brilliant and compassionate novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.
The calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he sees a man die in a freak hot-air balloon accident. A stranger named Jed Parry joins Rose in helping to bring the balloon to safety, but unknown to Rose, something passes between Parry and himself on that day—something that gives birth to an obsession in Parry so powerful that it will test the limits of Rose's beloved rationalism, threaten the love of his wife, Clarissa, and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

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Reviews

  • Very clever. This is reality?

    4
    By frequent diner nola
    Another taut psychological thriller from McEwan. I almost gave up a times, but I stuck with it, based on having thought well of many if his previous books. Though I cannot say the ending was satisfying in any sense, it was well worth the effort, and I'm glad I trusted the author and stuck with it.

  • Astonishing

    5
    By letopcat
    One of the finest opening chapters in 20th century literature. And it's a brilliant novel all the way through.

  • Enduring Love

    4
    By Allegreta
    The best thing about this story is the reality that our hero Joe could be imagining the "other" and the other's love. We know for sure that he exists and then we don't And then ultimately, we do. The illness described could be attributed to any moonstruck person who wants desperately to believe that his love for another is noticed, acknowledged and returned tenfold. How many of us has mistaken a word, a gesture, a glance to be something other than what it is? In Jerry Seinfeld's world the phrase "tell George I said hi" is much more meaningful than "give George my regards" and everyone in the scenario knows it. McEwan's description of the bereft woman whose husband died in an attempt to save the child in the balloon who didn't need saving anyway and her life and lot touched the core of my being -- I felt true warmth and true contempt for her; she was a mixture of all things, all emotions. I do not write long reviews. Too many reviews of books and especially films, give away the plot and reveal too much about the characters. I realize it is not enough to simpy say this is a gre book -- a great study -- just go and read it and yo won't b sorry, but

  • Enduring Love

    1
    By Joyful62
    Oh my gosh - BORING! I almost couldn't bear listening to the end. Beginning is awesome but switches over to boring immediately!

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