Enduring Love

Enduring Love

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This story begins on a windy summer's day in the Chilterns when the calm, organised life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident. What happens is shocking and tragic, but strangely inco-sequential. 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 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.

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• better than Atonement

  Reviewed by Marianne V. | see all reviews by Marianne V.

  12/12/2011

  Enduring Love is the 7th novel by Ian McEwan. The novel tells of the aftermath of a ballooning accident. Joe Rose and his partner Clarissa are on a picnic in a meadow when an unpiloted hot-air balloon with a small child on board drifts their way. Several men run to assist, and one of them dies. Joe encounters Jed Parry, who fixates on him and is convinced that they love each other and Jed is destined to bring Joe to God. This is an interesting novel which questions what legally constitutes harassment and stalking, and illustrates how obsessive love can be just as frightening as obsessive hate. I found McEwans Atonement irritating and annoying, so I picked this book up to give him a second chance, and I am not sorry I did. I enjoyed this much more than Atonement, although I did find some parts tedious or irrelevant e.g the procuring of the gun. I would suggest to readers who routinely ignore appendices that they read both in this case as they are an integral part of the novel.
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