Enduring Love
by McEwan, Ian
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page.
Grey cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A near fine book with some pushing to spine ends and very slight fading to spine, in a very good and unclipped dust jacket with some fading to spine panel and wear to spine ends with a few light marks to lower panel.
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 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
- Fine Book Cellar Ltd. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1476183139403
- Title
- Enduring Love
- Author
- McEwan, Ian
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Date Published
- 1997
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- McEwan, Enduring Love, First, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Signed First Editions; Books to Film; Ian McEwan;
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