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List Price: $23.95
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Manufacturer: Nan A. Talese
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780385491129
ISBN: 0385491123
Label: Nan A. Talese
Manufacturer: Nan A. Talese
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 1998-01-20
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Release Date: 1998-01-20
Studio: Nan A. Talese
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Summary: Are you serious?
Comment: It becomes unclear very early on in "Enduring Love" where Ian McEwan is churning the plot. The actual length of the novel mixed with the story description not only had me confused, it almost left me feeling jilted. I had to stop myself numerous times and search intently for the hidden meanings behind data and emotion. Were the letters written by Jed meant to reveal some hidden truth underneath this scientific shell that the protagonist, Joe Rose, was creating? Was the main character's wife, Clarissa, really seeing something we all weren't and going to spring it on us come novel's end?
A story of this caliber with this much wit and thought put into it, can clearly not be as cut-and-dry as it was molding itself out to be. I can not already see the ending when finishing chapter one. This author is a prized laurite. There has to be something else here. They don't make novels of this precision so predictable, do they? I searched and searched and tried and re-read several of the chapters numerous times. Nothing was revealed come novel's end.
"Enduring Love" proves to be an amalgamation of Ian McEwan's essays on scientific theory mixed with a plot point so blatantly obvious that you feel as if it's purposely being muddled to not appear as convincing as it is. In fact, the emotional maze I was being sent on chapter after chapter was so frustrating, I wanted to personally write the author a letter and ask him to share his thoughts with Popular Science instead! Don't pretend to be writing a suspense novel when you're really just running off at the mouth!
An ego splurge disguised as a novel of homoerotic obsession. (It WAS a novel of homoerotic obsession, true. They just failed to notify me that it was Mr. McEwan's obsession with himself.)
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Summary: Wonderful work by the great McEwan
Comment: You simply can't go wrong with any fiction by the supreme English writer of the day, Ian McEwan. Though not quite as good as "Atonement", this one was terrific and is short enough that it can be read in two or three sittings, as most of his works can be. I made it a point not to read the jacket beforehand, so the plot was a surprise. McEwan in all his books uses "love, faith, and suspense" to weave a wonderful tapestry. Thanks to him.
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Summary: One of the worst books I ever read
Comment: If you liked Camus' The Stranger you'll like this book. Otherwise, avoid it. Boring and pointless.
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Summary: A Terse Literary Masterpiece on Obsessive Love from Ian McEwan
Comment: Ian McEwan's slender novel, "Enduring Love", moves along at such an episodic fast clip that it might remind readers more of an Ian Fleming James Bond tale, than as a sophisticated literary confection from one of Great Britain's - and truly the English language's - foremost writers of fiction. McEwan opens quite literally with an explosive opening of such emotional and descriptive power, and one destined to be remembered as among the most memorable literary entrances in recent years. An explosive opening which truly sets the stage for a gripping, often thrilling, fictional exploration into obsessive love. It is such an intense exploration that readers may ponder whether the book's title ought to be "Obsessive Love". In the aftermath of a freak, tragic hot-air balloon accident, science writer Joe Rose finds his life turned unexpectedly by the compulsive acts of a someone he encountered briefly at the scene of the accident; a total stranger named Jed Parry. A stranger who professes enduring love for Rose, before it transforms itself into a twisted, tormented expression of love which threatens not only Rose's own intense love for his wife Clarissa, but also, eventually, his life. Rich in descriptively terse, almost poetic, prose, "Enduring Love" is unquestionably yet another literary triumph from the author of "Atonement" and "Amsterdam".
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Summary: Forever changed
Comment: The year this novel came out, I was living in London, going to university and working part-time at a book store. Stocking fiction paperbacks every week, I noticed how many of McEwan's books we always had coming in, but the title Enduring Love caught my attention. There was absolutely no description of the plot, only a few quotes of praise. Of course my curiousity meant I had to buy and read it. Perhaps b/c I read this novel w/ no expectations of any kind, reading this novel has been the single most pleasurable and altering reading experience of my life. While the ignorance that I approached this novel with may account for some of this experience, I do not think that another author could have had such a profound effect on my literary career. I began devouring all of his other writings, but this is still my favorite, and I believe his best work, with Amsterdam a close second. I recommend picking up any of his novels, carefully avoiding any specific reviews, synopsis, etc and just lose yourself in the carefully chosen words, for McEwan never wastes even one, and the poetry that is the sometimes enduring, sometime frightening genius of McEwan's explorations of the human psyche.
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Science writer Joe Rose is spending a day in the country with his long-time lover, Clarissa, when he witnesses a tragic accident--a balloon with a boy trapped in it is being tossed by the wind, and, in an attempt to save the child, a man is killed. As though that isn't disturbing enough, a man named Jed Parry, who has joined Rose in helping to bring the balloon to safety, believes that something has passed between him and Rose--something that sparks in Parry a deranged, obsessive kind of love.
Soon Parry is stalking Rose, who turns to science to try to understand the situation. Parry apparently suffers from a condition known to psychiatrists as de Clerambault Syndrome, in which the afflicted individual obsessively pursues the object of his desire until the frustrated love turns to hate and rage--transforming one of life's most valued experiences into pathological horror. As Rose grows more paranoid and terrified, as his treasured relationship with Clarissa breaks under the tension of his fear, Rose realizes that he needs to find something beyond the cold reasoning of science if this love is to be endured.
With the cool brilliance and deep compassion that defined his best novels (The Comfort of Strangers, The Innocent), Ian McEwan has once again spun a tale of life intruded upon by shocks of violence-and discovered profound truths about the nature of love and the power of forgiveness.
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