Ian McEwan's Enduring Love: A Reader's Guide

Continuum Contemporaries

by Roger Clark, Andy Gordon

This is an excellent guide to 'Enduring Love'. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative, intelligent, and helpful.

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

96 pages, Paperback

First published May 3, 2003

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.

For the audiobook narrator, see Roger Clark

Reviews

[Nigel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved it although there were problems. I didn't know about the medical profile this was based on. During the first half I was intrigued by the atheist vs. believer dynamic and the way that McEwan painted the benefits and downfalls of both sides. The last half, especially the shooting, seemed rushed. Maybe he was going on vacation but overall this was one of the more refreshing works I have read in a while.

[Louise Collins · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books I have read. It stayed with me for a long time and was my first introduction to his novels. Highly recommended.

[Laura Cooper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good guide for exams, good on post-modernism, good on meta-textual stuff.