Amy's review
Enduring Love
by Ian McEwan
Amy's review
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Amy's review
rating:
What a wonderful, disturbing change to think of love as something sinister.
I meant to just reach over on my bookpile next to my bed, snatch Enduring Love and read it for an hour or so before I got dressed and walked to school. I wound up hardly moving for the rest of the day and certainly not getting out of my pajamas because I just couldn’t put this down. An example: even the title made me think. I picked it up thinking that the word “enduring” was meant as an adjective to describe the kind of love Joe and Clarissa had through this whole ordeal. But later, I realized it could equally be meant as a verb: Joe is enduring the love of Perry. I can’t yet decide which use of the word I think would be more probable for McEwan to choose for his title. Which, of course, is a good thing.
I meant to just reach over on my bookpile next to my bed, snatch Enduring Love and read it for an hour or so before I got dressed and walked to school. I wound up hardly moving for the rest of the day and certainly not getting out of my pajamas because I just couldn’t put this down. An example: even the title made me think. I picked it up thinking that the word “enduring” was meant as an adjective to describe the kind of love Joe and Clarissa had through this whole ordeal. But later, I realized it could equally be meant as a verb: Joe is enduring the love of Perry. I can’t yet decide which use of the word I think would be more probable for McEwan to choose for his title. Which, of course, is a good thing.
