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Enduring Love

ABOUT
THE BOOK

Joe Rose’s calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident one windy spring day in the Chilterns. The afternoon could have ended in mere tragedy but for his brief encounter with Jed Parry. Unknown to Joe, something passes between them and gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test Joe’s beloved scientific rationalism to the limit, threaten the love of his wife, Clarissa, and drive him to desperate measures to stay alive. Enduring Love is the story of how an ordinary man can be driven to the brink of murder and madness by another’s delusions. Ian McEwan has written two collections of stories and eight novels, including Black DogsThe Daydreamer, and, most recently, Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Ian
McEwan

Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children’s novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize, Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach, Solar, Sweet Tooth and The Children Act.

Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children’s novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize, Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach, Solar, Sweet Tooth and The Children Act.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
04/09/1997
Country
United Kingdom
Original Language
English
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

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