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Enduring Love

A Novel

By Ian McEwan

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| Paperback | 9780385494144

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Book Description

On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident: a hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basket is being tossed by the wind, and in the attempt to save the child, a man is killed. A stranger named Jed PaContinue

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'Enduring Love' by Ian McEwan

In this well-crafted suspense novel, McEwan explores the notions of science versus religion; the meaning of love and stability in the midst of disruptive circumstances; and the damage which can ensue when a disturbed personality suddenly develops a ' ... (read full critics)

readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

I think I'm right, therefore I am

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan Cape, £15.99, pp247 There's an odd moment in Ian McEwan's new novel, when the narrator, Joe Rose, is being interviewed by the police after a murder attempt in a restaurant. Asked what flavour of ice cream he was eating bef ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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4 Reviews

The air of menace that floats over this story seems to me to be out of proportion to the rather insignificant events which unfold. That so much fine writing serves such an unsatisfactory story puzzles me. I sometimes wonder if I don't live in a totally different universe to McEuan...

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Top of the pile said on Mar 30, 2012 | Add your feedback

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The setting is a beech wood in the Chilterns and the picnic ought to have been tasteful, middle-class and uneventful. The ingredients were bought at Carluccio’s in London, the centrepiece is “a great ball of mozzarella”. There are olives, mixed salad and focaccia. The wine is a 1987 Daumas Gassac – ... (continue)

The setting is a beech wood in the Chilterns and the picnic ought to have been tasteful, middle-class and uneventful. The ingredients were bought at Carluccio’s in London, the centrepiece is “a great ball of mozzarella”. There are olives, mixed salad and focaccia. The wine is a 1987 Daumas Gassac – opened but never enjoyed because of what is to eclipse the picnic forever and launch the turbulent novel: a hot air balloon in trouble which has the narrator abandoning his picnic and running across the fields

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VJ Von Art said on Mar 20, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

Had an odd relationship with this book, rather like the odd "relationship" described in it. I thought it was annoyingly clammy and unpleasant in places but I also had an odd fascination for the story that kept me going with it. Beautifully observed and written, though.

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sid_rw said on Jul 5, 2008 | Add your feedback