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Enduring Love: A Novel Paperback – December 29, 1998

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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. From the Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement, here is a brilliant and compassionate novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.

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"A remarkable novel, haunting and original and written in prose that anyone who writes can only envy." —The Washington Post

"Impeccably written--[McEwan] is the quietest and most lucid of stylists, with never a word wasted or fumbled." —The New York Review of Books

"Eerie, slow-paced suspense worth its weight in caffeine for keeping you up all night." —Entertainment Weekly

"[A] beautifully realized--novel about our responses to violence. It asks us to choose between competing visions of events, and, in the process, forces us to examine the way we react to both art and life when something terrible happens." —The Boston Globe

"McEwan's writing—is unflaggingly poised and, as usual, capable of excavating deep, painful trenches in the back corridors of the psyche and the heart." —Miami Herald

"Cleverly imagined, beautifully executed—Mr. McEwan has few peers." —The Wall Street Journal

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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 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. Brilliant and compassionate, this is a novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor (December 29, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385494149
ISBN-13: 978-0385494144
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 200 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1002 in Self-Help & Psychology Humor
- #3312 in Psychological Fiction (Books)
- #248 in LGBT Literary Fiction (Books)

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D. BookHugger

A Good Read on Many Levels

February 23, 2018

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I have read most of Ian McEwan's books and I have also read some of the less favorable reviews of Enduring Love. I am a casual reader, not a scholar, but I think McEwan's writing can be enjoyed on many levels. This is a good read for those who demand plausible, believable explanations of characters' behaviors and motivations. I agree that the author's discussions of poets and academic theories left me in the dust. However, the deliciously funny scene at the home of the aging hippie drug dealers almost made me hug my Kindle ("basically"). This is not a beach read but it is a good read, suspenseful, insightful and worth the time.

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Jessica Sullivan

Super compelling

July 12, 2018

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Joe Rose is spending the afternoon in the park with his longtime girlfriend Clarissa, when his life is changed forever. A hot air balloon carrying a man and his grandson is headed for disaster, and as Joe and several strangers attempt to ground it, one of them is killed. It’s one of the most intense and harrowing openings I’ve ever read.

Following the incident, Joe, who is a staunchly rational science writer, is plagued by the horrible randomness of the tragedy and his involvement in it. Meanwhile, Jed, one of the strangers who participated in the rescue attempt, becomes obsessed with Joe: he’s convinced that they fell in love that day, and that it’s his duty to show Joe God’s love.

As Jed continues to stalk Joe, Joe becomes consumed by paranoia on top of the guilt he feels from that day. It doesn’t help that no one takes his concerns about Jed seriously—including Clarissa.

This is a super compelling read. The prose is gorgeous, and the ongoing analysis of morality, guilt, responsibility and self-preservation is deeply fascinating. In fact, I think this book would have been interesting enough without all the craziness revolving around Jed. Parts of that storyline are certainly interesting, but it becomes slightly over the top.

It’s the subtler parts of the story that are most satisfying—such as Joe’s encounter with the dead man’s wife, who fears he was cheating on her the day he died. There’s a lot of layered complexity throughout as the characters’ perceptions and subjective realities are challenged. In order to convince others, we must first convince ourselves—but to what lengths, and at what cost?

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Cheryl L. Lettenmaier

A story of love and trust put to the test

June 14, 2015

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This is a character piece written as only Ian McEwan can. This is the story of Joe and Clarissa who are very much in love until a psychopathic obsessed man, Jed Parry, starts stalking Joe. Joe tells the story, so the reader knows everything Jed Parry is doing to Joe--following him, recording endless messages on his answering machine, writing long love-besotted letters. Or, at least, we think we do.... But Clarissa does not believe the stories Joe tells her. In fact, from her point of view, her husband has become suspicious, unreliable, a bit crazy and difficult. And, at some point, as the reader, I began to think that perhaps his wife was right. Perhaps Joe is delusional and conjured the whole thing up. At any rate, Joe's inability to convince Clarissa that he's not delusional, and Clarissa's disgust by Joe's slow unraveling in the face of Parry's relentless stalking, have a devastating effect on their relationship. It all comes to a climax which I will not divulge because I don't want to ruin the story for others who might want to read it. I loved this book. It is a bit slow at first. But, once I got into it, I felt as if I was inside Joe's head, understanding every paranoid thought, every loving and shattering moment.

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Joyce

McEwan never fails to amaze

November 22, 2010

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This product has been reviewed by so many, the only cogent comments I can add are the few that follow:
1. Before reading this, I think it would be valuable to read: SaturdaySaturday, AtonementAtonement: A Novel, and Black DogsBlack Dogs: A Novel by McEwan
2. McEwan's later works seem to brighly inform Enduring Love; I could not put this down, but I don't know if that would have been the case if I hadn't already read most of his other, later fiction. Black Dogs, especially, relates to the psychological morass the protagonist exhibits.
3. I reflected on McEwan's influence from Kafka (The TrialThe Trial, The MetamorphosisThe Metamorphosis, as well as from Fowles (The CollectorThe Collector (Back Bay Books)) and Nabokov (LolitaLolita).

McEwan's twists and turns at the beginning of the book are clever and suspenseful; however, rather than focus on that already well-discussed opening, I think it's worthwhile to reflect on McEwan's continued push/pull of the religious/scientific continuum.

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Catherine S. Vodrey

Contrary to the title, it's a thriller

August 3, 2007

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In "Enduring Love," Ian McEwan has written the most perfect first chapter I've ever read. Joe Rose, the narrator, begins by telling us, "Here's where it started" and you begin to realize, with horror, that what "it" is is the astonishingly rapid unraveling of the perfect life he has. The action begins when Joe happens to help with an accident waiting to happen--a hot air balloon buffeted by high winds, with a ten-year old boy cowering in the basket. Having acted unthinkingly to help save the boy, he and a handful of other men who happen to be nearby are towed upwards on the balloon lines, vainly attempting to bring it to earth. One by one they let go--all except one.

I won't divulge any more specifics than that, other than to say that McEwan is clearly a genius. His gift is in excavating the messy architecture of the human heart and exposing how very fleeting and tenuous some relationships are, while showing how firms the bonds of other relationships can be. The characters are realistically drawn and their interactions with each other true-to-life. There are a couple of twists, but they're believable--and they add to the general sense of loss and emotional horror and enforced loneliness this novel palpably sketches.

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