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Enduring Love

Ian McEwan

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Feb 22, 2018 Claire rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: guardian-1000, precinct-81, 1001-books-to-read-before-you-die

With this novel, Ian McEwan again writes in a beautiful language and style about people in today’s society. The novel starts excellent, but looses his pace fast. However, one does not read McEwan to have a lot of action and suspense. The characters wander, can’t manage to have real understanding of eachother, and have very different memories and opinions.A central theme is the opposition between science and the world of wonder, magic, storytelling,... After reading the appendix the question is w ...more

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Jan 23, 2016 Raine rated it it was amazing

I SO enjoyed this book. I loved the writing style of McEwan (at times I describe it as prose), and the characters were great. The story was somewhat odd, but it all comes together at the end. TIP: MAKE SURE TO READ THE APPENDIX AT THE END, with the journal article.

The story is based on a ballooning accident that occured one afternoon. The story stems from that incident, and involves relationships, mental health, and how beliefs in life can become misconstrued. The main character, Joe, was so or ...more

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Aug 31, 2012 Booknblues rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary-fiction, england

A wayward baloon, a young boy inside it and six men grabbing ropes and trying to reel him into safety. With the wind working against them, it turns to tragedy with one of them dead. For Joe Rose, a scientific jornalist who was among those attempting to bring the boy to safety and his wife Clarissa, this would be a defining line for their lives as Ian McEwan details in his novel Enduring Love.

I’ve never read anything by Ian McEwan before and though this very book had been sitting on my shelf for ...more

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Apr 12, 2016 Sara rated it it was ok

Shelves: own, england, contemporary-fiction, death

Tragedy can strike in an instant and create in those impacted the strangest of reactions. One spring day while picnicing with his wife Joe Rose's life in upended in just such a fashion. Witness to a balooning accident he and four other men race to the scene to try to avert disaster and one of them looses his life. Another becomes fixated on Joe and his obsession nearly causes another death, while simultaneously destroying the neat and orderly life Joe and his wife have crafted.

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