Enduring Love - Ian McEwan

I picked up ‘Enduring Love’ having intended for a while to read one of McEwan’s books. I had fairly high expectations. I have heard McEwan’s writing commended often, and the back of the Vintage edition is covered with words of fulsome praise. I’m happy to say I wasn’t disappointed. The story is that of a middle aged popular science writer, Joe Rose, who suffers the obsessive attention of a young Christian man, Jed Parry, who it turns out is a sufferer of a ‘clinical variant of de Clérambault’s syndrome’. ‘De Clérambault’s syndrome’, for those of us living outside the world of professional ...  Read the complete review

What is a rhetorical question? It’s a question to which the answer is self-evident, obvious, clear. An example? Have you read all the books standing on your bookshelves? Another one: have you bought new books nevertheless? I’d like to propose to change the cat ‘Where do you buy your books?’ into ‘Where do you get your books from?’, one answer could be: from my own overcrowded bookshelves! That’s what happened to me before my last hols. I was browsing through my ‘unreads’ and chanced on Enduring Love. Ian McEwan, wasn’t that the Amsterdam chappie two of my dooyoo friends disagree so heartily ...  Read the complete review

Joe Rose is a science journalist, in a long term relationship with Clarissa who is coming back from the US that fateful day when the story of 'Enduring Love' begins. Their welcome countryside picnic goes awry when Joe becomes involved in a ballooning accident in which one of the rescuers is killed. So we already have the set-up, when something - a tragedy - invades the seemingly comfortable and ordered lives of his characters. But it's not a mere tragedy, it's not the accident that turns Joe's life upside down, it's the fact that Jed Parry, a fellow rescuer seems to have developed an obsessive passion for Joe, a passion which only after a time Joe manages ...  Read the complete review

Enduring Love * Being an English As student , and having to study Enduring Love in detail I thought it would be a good idea to WRITE a review about it because I am so familiar with the book. I also decided to write this review as I have my english exams in a couple of days and one of the exams is based on writing something like a review , and the other paper is about Enduring Love , so I figured that by writing a review on this book would be good practise for both papers. I just hope my review doesn't turn out to be too essay-like! The book was written by a famous British author named Ian McEwan. McEwan was born on June 21st 1948 in Aldershot. He is an ...  Read the complete review

Ian McEwan is the author of many books and short stories. The book that most people will know him from is the controversial novel ?The Cement Garden?. In addition to this he has also written a number of film scripts. Enduring Love was published in 1997. It starts with one of the best opening chapters I have ever read. I am not alone in this thought it appears, from the numerous reviews I have read also rave about the opening. It starts with a man and his wife enjoying a picnic on a summer?s day out. The day is going well and they are enjoying themselves and their surroundings. The scenery is described so as you can almost picture yourself there and if ...  Read the complete review