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Overview
One windy spring day in the Chilterns, Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry ...
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Editions
London: Jonathan Cape, 1997 (247 p., ISBN: 0224050311).
New York: Anchor Books, 1997 (262 p., ISBN: 0385494149).
Toronto: Knopf, 1997 (247 p., ISBN: 0676970877).
L'amore fatale (Italian / Trans. by Susanna Basso). Torino: Einaudi, 1997 (280 p., ISBN: 8806146602).
New York: Nan A. Talese, 1998 (262 p., ISBN: 0385491123).
London: Vintage, 1998 (247 p., ISBN: 0099276585).
(Large Print). Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press / Bath, Eng.: Chivers Press, 1998 (394 p., ISBN: 0786214473).
(Audio / Read by Steven Crossley). Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 1998 (6 cassettes, 9 hrs. / ISBN: 0788721763).
(Audio / Read by Maxwell Caulfield). Los Angeles, CA: Publishing Mills, 1998 (4 cassettes, 5 hrs. / ISBN: 1575110407).
(Audio / Read by David Threlfall). Bath, England: Chivers Audio Books, 1998 (8 cassettes, 8 hrs., 35 mins. / ISBN: 0754002004).
Amor perdurable (Spanish / Trans. by Benito Gómez Ibáñez). Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1998 (300 p., ISBN: 8433908731).
New York: Anchor Books, 1999 (262 p.).
Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1999 (ISBN: 0676971393).
(Large Print). Bath: Paragon, 1999 (394 p., ISBN: 0754021106).
Délire d'amour (French / Trans. by Suzanne Mayoux). Paris: Gallimard, 1999 (322 p., ISBN: 2070749754).
Ahavah 'ikeshet (Hebrew / Trans. by 'Atalyah Zilber). Tel Aviv: 'Am 'oved, 1999 (467 p., ISBN: 9651313129).
Neúprosná láska (Slovak / Trans. by Adriana Oravcová). Bratislava: Slovenský spisovatel, 2000 (190 p., ISBN: 8022010197).
Sonsuz Ask (Turkish). Can Yayinlari, 2002 (ISBN: 9750701399).
Selected Reviews and Criticism
Goring, Rosemary, 'At 49, He's Fed Up With the Trembling Psychopath Scowling Behind His Glasses - but He Isn't Mellow', Scotland on Sunday, 10 August 1997: 3.
McEwan, Ian. 'We Were Running Towards a Catastrophe', The Guardian (London), 24 August 1997: 2. [Excerpt from the novel.]
Bouman, Hans. 'Macht van de irrationaliteit', de Volkskrant, 12 September 1997.
Reynolds, Oliver, Times Literary Supplement, 4928, 12 September 1997: 12.
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. 'Science vs. the Divine, With Suspense and Passion', New York Times, 15 January 1998: E11.
Allen, Brooke, 'The Mysteries of Intimacy', Wall Street Journal, 23 January 1998: A14.
Birkerts, Sven, 'Grand Delusion', New York Times Book Review, 81:2, 25 January 1998: 7.
Eder, Richard. 'Twitching Curtains', Los Angeles Times Book Review, 25 January 1998: 2.
Truax, Alice. 'Id? Fixes', Slate, 28 January 1998.
Yardley, Jonathan, 'Pathological Lovers. From Ian McEwan, a Triangle With a Twist', Washington Post, 28 January 1998: D2.
Donahue, Deirdre, 'McEwan Conveys Power and Pathos of Enduring Love', USA Today, 29 January 1998: D5.
Manier, Jeremy. 'Ian McEwan's Story of Affection, Obsession and Identity', Chicago Tribune, 1 February 1998: 14.
Nesson, Nicholas. 'Are the Catastrophes of Life Tragic, or Only Horrible?', The Boston Globe, 8 February 1998: G2.
Warren, Tim. 'Love, This McEwan Novel Go Awry', Houston Chronicle, 15 March 1998: Z25.
Madrigal, Alix. 'Ian McEwan Explores Obsession -- The Dark Twin of Love', San Francisco Chronicle (Review), 29 March 1998: 4.
Osborn, Alan. 'Enduring Love', Europe (European Economic Community), 375, April 1998: 34.
Brennan, Geraldine, New Statesman, 24 July 1998: 48.
Curb, Randall, 'Almost a Triangle', Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, 5:3, Summer 1998: 59.
Bien, Peter, 'Enduring Love', World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma, 72:4, Autumn 1998: 830-831.
Kingston, Peter. 'Books: Audio', The Guardian (London), 30 January 1999: 11.
Mars-Jones, Adam. 'I Think I'm Right, Therefore I Am', The Observer (London), 7 September 1999.
Miller, Laura. 'Ian McEwan Fools British Shrinks', Salon.com, 21 September 1999. Reports on how the appendix to Enduring Love tricked book reviewers and psychiatric scholars into believing it was a true case study.
Daniel Terris. 'Untitled.' Commonweal, 127:12, 16 June 2000: 25-26.
Bewes, Timothy, 'What Is "Philosophical Honesty" in Postmodern Literature?', New Literary History, 31.3, Summer 2000: 421-434.
Morrison, Jago. 'Narration and Unease in Ian McEwan's Later Fiction.' Critique, 42:3, Spring 2001: 253+. [Discussion of gender roles in Enduring Love and Black Dogs.]
Takamoto, Takako. 'Enduring Love: Soutaika-sareta "Monogatari"'('Enduring Love: Relativised "Stories"'), Kyushu Eibungaku Kenkyu, 19, 2002: 55-68.
Davies, Rhiannon. 'Enduring McEwan', in Posting the Male: Masculinities in Post-War and Contemporary British Literature, edited by Daniel Lea and Berthold Schoene, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003: 105-23.