Enduring Love
by McEwan, Ian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, 1st edition, 2nd printing; unclipped d/j (v.g.), grey clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages
- ISBN 10
- 0224050311
- ISBN 13
- 9780224050319
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1997. 1st. hardback. Fine, 1st edition, 2nd printing; unclipped d/j (v.g.), grey clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). This story begins on a windy summer's day in the Chilterns when the calm, organized life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident. What happens is shocking and tragic, but strangely inconsequential. The consequences come after, for that fatal accident brings Joe together, briefly, with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to take desperate measures merely to stay alive. Totally compelling, utterly and terrifyingly convincing, ENDURING LOVE is the story of how an ordinary man can be driven to the brink of murder and madness by another's delusions.
Synopsis
Enduring Love (1997) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan. It has been adapted for film and was released under the same name.
Reviews
On May 8 2020, The Old Library Bookshop said:
On the back of my copy of this book, a blurb from The New York Review of Books describes it as being "impeccably written," and they are probably not far from wrong. As I read this novel, I found myself admiring but not enjoying it. The "love" of the title should more properly be described as obsession and cannot endure without destroying both parties. The narrator Joe Rose, a science fiction writer, crosses paths with a stranger named Jed Parry when they both are witnesses to a horrific scene, an out-of-control hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basket. When another witness tries to save the boy, he is killed. Parry is suddenly smitten with an obsession for Rose, about which Rose is unable to convince his wife Clarissa, the police, or anyone else in his life. Madness seems to be contagious, as Rose struggles to maintain his rationality in the face of an unnatural love that portends disaster.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC131880
- Title
- Enduring Love
- Author
- McEwan, Ian
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, 1st edition, 2nd printing; unclipped d/j (v.g.), grey clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224050311
- ISBN 13
- 9780224050319
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 247
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, McEwan
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.56 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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