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One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized lifeis shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects,could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love ofhis wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness. Read more
Publisher : Random House UK Ltd
Publication date : June 25, 1998
Language : English
Print length : 247 pages
ISBN-10 : 0099276585
ISBN-13 : 86
Item Weight : 7.1 ounces
Dimensions : 5.04 x 0.87 x 7.8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #3,552,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Customer Reviews: 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (2,144)
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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.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2010 by C. Collins
Format: Kindle
I had never heard of Ian McEwan, or any of his works, until recently for school. At first, I was quite hesitant with Enduring Love because the story starts in the middle of the scene, which lays the foundation for the rest of the book. It has to jump back in time to explain to the reader what’s going on, and I was not too fond of that at first because books that jump around can be confusing and hard to follow sometimes. However, I came to like the book, the more I read it. Enduring Love starts with a hot air balloon accident, where Joe, along with other characters like Jed, come together to try and stop a hot air balloon from whisking away the balloonist’s grandson. However, the meeting of Joe and Jed sends the story into a downward spiral from there. Jed becomes obsessed with Joe from the small meeting and insists on following him everywhere. From leaving numerous messages on his answering machine to standing outside his apartment building for hours on end. Throughout the book, the consistency of stalking from Jed, despite the numerous pleads and threats of calling police by Joe, negatively affects our main character. He starts to grow paranoid of Jed, eventually leading him to think, look, and speak of him frequently. In doing so, it puts a strain on his relationship with Clarrisa, and they slowly start to grow apart because she thinks Joe is making it all up. Personally, something I liked was the noticeable slow decline in Jed’s mental health throughout the book. You can tell that the longer the story progresses and the more he realizes he will not get what he wants, the more aggressive, straightforward, and out of control Jed becomes. I also really liked that the characters’ reactions are quite normal, not out of place or strange. For example, when Joe could not prove to Clarrisa that Jed was leaving messages on the answering machine or that he was not writing the letters to himself, she started to doubt him and think he was losing it. A completely normal and relatable reaction, instead of something like believing him without any evidence. Overall, I think McEwan’s Enduring Love was a good reading; however, if you prefer a fast past storyline or a book that does not backtrack at all, then this book may not be for you.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2020 by Hanna
The novel starts out strong and promising, but unfortunately things turn out less than thrilling. The writing itself is good, and I wasn't really sorry I'd read through to the end, but I a few things just didn't make sense. I was a little puzzled at the beginning by how quickly Clarissa lost all trust for Joe, assumed he was nuts, and abandoned him to his (real or imagined) pain. She is described as the emotional one, and yet has no empathy for Joe. Not really the behavior of someone in a deeply committed relationship. The character of Jed could have used a little roundness - yeah, he's a stalker, but even stalkers have personalities. As the novel went on, I started to wonder what the climax would bring... is it really all in Joe's head, and Clarissa knows something that we don't? Was Jed the last one to let go, or was it Joe? Was Jed really the missing 'mistress' from the car? Is there really some kind of homoerotic relationship between Joe and Jed? [spoiler alert] Sadly, none of these things turn out to be true. Joe turns out to be a reliable narrator, and Clarissa just a poorly drawn character. Her final letter expresses the sentiments of an author who is either misogynist or knows nothing about women's emotional lives. The whole aside about Clarissa's desire for children is a non-sequitur, with no real connection to the plot, and felt like it was in there only as filler. The solution to the other aside about the dead guy's supposed mistress felt contrived yet again to vindicate the men, and to leave the impression that the wife, just as Clarissa, had been just plain wrong.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2012 by Eva