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Enduring Love

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One windy spring day in the Chilterns, Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Joe reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Perry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Perry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limit Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa, and drive him to the brink of murder and madness. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House UK Ltd (June 25, 1998)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 247 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099276585


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 86


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.04 x 0.87 x 7.8 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #3,897,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)


Customer Reviews: 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 1,936 ratings


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    • A disturbing creepy novel that is masterfully plotted and written
Enduring Love is evidence that Ian McEwan is one of the most talented contemporary authors in the English language. Like his wonderful book, Atonement, Enduring Love is a masterpiece. The story is compelling and grows in tension from chapter to chapter. Yet there are mysteries inside of mysteries that work themselves to the surface as the story progresses. Like Shakespeare, McEwan also uses comic relief to wonderful effect in a scene with free love hippies fighting each other after selling the protagonist an illegal weapon. A terrible accident and tragedy initiates the book and brings Joe in first contact with Jeb, his obsessed tormentor. Joe has adopted a scientific biological deterministic view of sexual relationships, love, and love making. He is a science writer who thinks the natural world can certainly be explained through deterministic concepts. Thus he sees romantic love as a purely biologically driven impulse created so that humans would reproduce. He continues to expound on this biological determinism, often in front of his lover at dinner parties, and seems to be unaware of the manner in which he is killing the lust in his relationship by continually referring to it through biological determinism rather than as a human experience that is extremely difficult to reduce to any one philosophical perspective. The encounter between Joe and Jed is a multi-dimensional encounter. One approach would be that Joe has encountered the very thing he has expressed in his journalism, that sexual obsession is a driving biologically driven force that is beyond rational control in some situations. Yet, when Joe is actually confronted with the power of such a biologically driven obsessive attachment, he gradually becomes rattled and thrown off-center emotionally. He becomes as mad as the mad man that has fallen so deeply in love with him. This first dimension of this book's underlying structure would be rationality confronting determinism. Another approach would be the Jungian interpretation that Jeb represents Joe's dark shadow. Joe expounds biological determinism because he wishes to be beyond its control. The appearance of Jeb proves him wrong. In Jungian psychology, the more the conscious mind tries to suppress the shadow, the creepier the shadow becomes as it stalks the ego, seeking acceptance. Thus the film could be interpreted as classic Jungian psychology. This second dimension of this book's underlying structure would be the ego confronting the shadow. A third approach would be based on the ancient Greek concept of the Furies, those terrible tormenting images that follow the guilty around and plague them with feelings of guilt and remorse. Joe was one of the 4 men that let go of the red balloon. Whereas the pediatrician hung on and dies from the fall, if all had held on, the boy might have been saved. Joe is tormented as to whether he let go of the balloon first, telling himself repeatedly that he was not the first to let go. The grief and remorse impact his judgment. Joe spends hours drawing balloons, cutting balloons out of magazines, and pinning balloon images up on his office bulletin board. Thus Jed is a Fury, a mythological creature come to haunt Joe's life for the sin of being the first to let go of the red balloon. These three interpretations are also interwoven with contemporary mental health concepts such as post-traumatic stress disorder, a diagnosis that Claire offers to Joe. The contemporary social phenomenon of the `stalker' is also evident. Jed could be seen as a stalker of Joe. The observation that all of these interpretations are interwoven into this film's narrative is part of the book's strength. Jed, revealing slowly and incrementally the extent of his insane obsession, becomes more threatening and disturbing with each chapter. As Jed becomes more blatantly confrontive and Joe becomes more threatened, those around him don't fully understand the external and internal drama that Joe is encountering. The craftsmanship of McEwan's writing is evident in every word choice in the book. The book is excellent. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2010 by C. Collins
    • Super compelling
Joe Rose is spending the afternoon in the park with his longtime girlfriend Clarissa, when his life is changed forever. A hot air balloon carrying a man and his grandson is headed for disaster, and as Joe and several strangers attempt to ground it, one of them is killed. It’s one of the most intense and harrowing openings I’ve ever read. Following the incident, Joe, who is a staunchly rational science writer, is plagued by the horrible randomness of the tragedy and his involvement in it. Meanwhile, Jed, one of the strangers who participated in the rescue attempt, becomes obsessed with Joe: he’s convinced that they fell in love that day, and that it’s his duty to show Joe God’s love. As Jed continues to stalk Joe, Joe becomes consumed by paranoia on top of the guilt he feels from that day. It doesn’t help that no one takes his concerns about Jed seriously—including Clarissa. This is a super compelling read. The prose is gorgeous, and the ongoing analysis of morality, guilt, responsibility and self-preservation is deeply fascinating. In fact, I think this book would have been interesting enough without all the craziness revolving around Jed. Parts of that storyline are certainly interesting, but it becomes slightly over the top. It’s the subtler parts of the story that are most satisfying—such as Joe’s encounter with the dead man’s wife, who fears he was cheating on her the day he died. There’s a lot of layered complexity throughout as the characters’ perceptions and subjective realities are challenged. In order to convince others, we must first convince ourselves—but to what lengths, and at what cost? ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2018 by Jessica Sullivan
    • Brilliant, witty, and boring
I feel it important to point out before proceeding with this review that I haven't read any of Ian McEwan's other works, as a matter of fact I was entirely unfamiliar with him until I was tasked with reading Enduring Love for a university course. But anyways, my thoughts: If you read novels mainly for the plot, this is not the novel for you - Enduring Love's story takes a back seat to McEwan's prose. Not much really happens all things considered and what few plot points are in the book are separated by long swathes of tedious, overly verbose monologues by the protagonist that don't amount to anything but to hammer his worldview down the reader's throat. As far as the writing is concerned, then, while technically impressive, I found it at times to meander a little too much for my taste. Honestly there are times where I’d describe it as downright circuitous. A great example is on page 53. Joe (the protagonist) is working in his study, trying to distract himself from his suspicions that another man is stalking him, when suddenly he hears an unmistakable creak in the floorboards behind him. Rather than immediately snapping around to investigate the sound, he breaks into a long winded reflection on the human nervous system, its functions and origins, and the selective pressures that governed its evolution. Then when he finally does turn around, it was only his wife. I’m sure some people appreciate this style of writing but personally I find it to be enormously irritating. Overall, while I admire and respect McEwan’s undeniable talent for writing, at the end of the day Enduring Love is just not for me. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2020 by Jake Simon

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