Enduring Love
McEwan, Ian
Sold by Joy Norfolk, Deez Books, IPSWICH, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 16 November 2004
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketSold by Joy Norfolk, Deez Books, IPSWICH, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 16 November 2004
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket247 page novel. In clean and sound condition with just light shelf wear to the edges of the dust wrapper. Signed "Ian McEwan" on the title page. 1st edition / 1st printing. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK. Please email with any queries. Non-UK customers please select the fast / expedited shipping service at checkout. 6.5"x9.5".
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In itself, the accident would change the couple and the survivors' lives, filling them with an uneasy combination of shame, happiness, and endless self-reproach. But fate has far more unpleasant things in store for Joe. Meeting the eye of fellow rescuer Jed Parry, for example, turns out to be a very bad move. For Jed is instantly obsessed, making the first of many calls to Joe and Clarissa's London flat that very night. Soon he's openly shadowing Joe and writing him endless letters. (One insane epistle begins, "I feel happiness running through me like an electrical current. I close my eyes and see you as you were last night in the rain, across the road from me, with the unspoken love between us as strong as steel cable.") Worst of all, Jed's version of love comes to seem a distortion of Joe's feelings for Clarissa.
Apart from the incessant stalking, it is the conditionals--the contingencies--that most frustrate Joe, a scientific journalist. If only he and Clarissa had gone straight home from the airport... If only the wind hadn't picked up... If only he had saved Jed's 29 messages in a single day... Ian McEwan has long been a poet of the arbitrary nightmare, his characters ineluctably swept up in others' fantasies, skidding into deepening violence, and--worst of all--becoming strangers to those who love them. Even his prose itself is a masterful and methodical exercise in de-familiarisation. But Enduring Love and its underrated predecessor, Black Dogs, are also meditations on knowledge and perception as well as brilliant manipulations of our own expectations. By the novel's end, you will be surprisingly unafraid of hot-air balloons, but you won't be too keen on looking a stranger in the eye. --Alex Freeman
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