Enduring Love - A Novel By Ian McEwan
"Enduring Love" is a novel by award winning writer Ian McEwan, first published in 1997
On an ordinary spring day, while he is enjoying a picnic with his girlfriend, Clarissa, the calm, organised, ordinary life of science writer Joe Rose is turned upside down due to the repercussions of a tragic accident.
Joe and Clarissa see a hot-air balloon out of control and being tossed around by strong winds. To his horror, Joe realises that a young boy is trapped in the basket of the balloon, and he and several other people rush to help, but In the attempt to save the boy, a man is killed. .
A passerby named Jed Parry joins Joe in helping to bring the balloon down safely. Joe is so shocked by what has happened he doesn't take much notice of Jed Parry...but Jed Parry notices Joe...
Their chance meeting spawns a dangerous obsession in Parry, an obsession powerful enough to test the limits of Joe's rationalism, threaten his relationship with his girlfriend and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.
A film version of "Enduring Love" was released in 2004, starring Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans and Bill Nighy.
"Enduring Love" - Table of Contents
Ian McEwan - Enduring Love
- Enduring Love Quotes
- Plot Summary Of Enduring Love
- Joe And Clarissa (Daniel Craig And Samantha Morton)
- Ian McEwan Reads The First Chapter Of Enduring Love
- Enduring Love Quotes
- Excerpt From Enduring Love
- Joe (Daniel Craig) Attempts A Rescue
- Reviews Of Enduring Love
- Ian McEwan Answers Questions About Enduring Love
- The Balloon Scene From Enduring Love
- Enduring Love Quotes
- "De Clerambault's Syndrome"
- Jed Parry (Rhys Ifans) spies on Joe
- Enduring Love Quotes
- Study Resources For Enduring Love
- Enduring Love On Twitter
- Enduring Love Movie Trailer
- Daniel Craig & Rhys Ifans Discuss The Making Of The Film, "Enduring Love"
- Enduring Love Movie Clip
- The Question Is..."What Is Enduring Love?"
- More About The Author Of "Enduring Love" - Ian McEwan
- Enduring Love On eBay
- Enduring Love Comments
- Other Novels By Ian McEwan
Enduring Love Quotes
"The beginning is simple to mark. We were in sunlight under a turkey oak, partly protected from a strong, gusty wind. I was kneeling on the grass with a corkscrew in my hand, and Clarissa was passing me the bottle - a 1987 Daumas Gassac. This was the moment, this was the pinprick on the time map..." Joe
Plot Summary Of Enduring Love
Synopsis of Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Much hyped at the time of release, "Enduring Love" doesn't disappoint over a decade later...
Enduring Love has one of the most compelling first chapters of any book ever written. The narrator is Joe Rose, a successful science writer in his 40's. He has enjoyed a happy relationship with his common-law wife Clarissa for many years.
On the way home from picking Clarissa up from the airport, the couple stop for a picnic in the Oxfordshire countryside and as Joe starts to open a bottle of wine, his contented and secure life changes forever...
Hearing a cry, Joe and Clarissa witness a hot-air balloon clearly out of control. The basket of the balloon contains a terrified child and a frantic man is desperately trying to pull the balloon back to the ground. Joe and several other witnesses rush to help the man, but their efforts end in tragedy.
The aftermath of the events of that day affects all those involved, but decidedly unexpected reprecussions occur for Joe, Clarissa and Jed Parry, one of the bystanders who attempted to anchor the balloon.
Joe and Parry exchanged no more than a glance during the rescue attempt, but for Parry, that glance changed his life and turned Joe and Clarissa's world upside down...
The novel explores the theme of relationships (physical, emotional and spiritual) and the issue of trust. Echoing his earlier novel "Black Dogs", McEwan puts his characters into a situation where they are forced to question their values, beliefs and everything they hold dear and familiar in life.
Joe is the main character and outwardly the "victim", but McEwan introduces more than a tiny element of doubt about Joe's version of reality in the mind of the reader and does so in a compelling and very readable fashion...this is definitely a "can't put it down until I find out what happens" kind of book.
Highly recommended.
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"Enduring Love is one of Ian McEwan's finest works. It is also one of the most beautifully written and emotionally engaging books to have come out of Britain in the past decade. Fans of McEwan familiar with his superb wartime novel, Atonement, will enjoy Enduring Love very much..."
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Joe And Clarissa (Daniel Craig And Samantha Morton)
Ian McEwan Reads The First Chapter Of Enduring Love
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Enduring Love Quotes
"A beginning is an artifice, and what recommends one over another is how much sense it makes of what follows."
Excerpt From Enduring Love
Extract from "Enduring Love" by Ian McEwan
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- Halfway through the novel, a delusional Jed Parry writes the following letter to the subject of his obsession, Joe Rose...

Joe (Daniel Craig) Attempts A Rescue
Reviews Of Enduring Love
Book reviews of "Enduring Love" by Ian McEwan
- Review of Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
- The Bookbag - Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
- British Council "Book of the Month"
- British Council "Book of the Month" - review of Enduring Love
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Ian McEwan Answers Questions About Enduring Love
Ian McEwan interviews on the subject of Enduring Love
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The Balloon Scene From Enduring Love
Enduring Love Quotes
"I have no doubt that I remember his words correctly. He said 'Is that Joe?' I didn't reply. I had already recognised the voice. He said, 'I just wanted you to know, I understand what you're feeling. I feel it too. I love you'..." Joe
"De Clerambault's Syndrome"
How Ian McEwan managed to fool the psychiatric world...
- Salon Books | Ian McEwan fools British shrinks
- The novelist puts one over on a few American critics, too.

Jed Parry (Rhys Ifans) spies on Joe
Enduring Love Quotes
"Don't ever walk by me as if I wasn't there. Neither of us can be fooled. Never deny my reality, because in the end you'll deny yourself..." Jed
Enduring Love On Wikipedia
Enduring Love article on Wikipedia
Enduring Love (1997) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan.
It has been adapted for film and was released under the same name.
Study Resources For Enduring Love
Guides and information resources for Enduring Love

A-level Notes for Ian McEwans "Enduring Love"
(Jane Gibson's 'A'-level Notes)


This book is aimed at 'A' level students who are seeking at top grade in English Literature. The book is suitable for both individual and class study and is organized as a series of questions which help an student to gain an individual reading of the book. There are three sample essays included to illustrate the required standard for an 'A' grade.
Amazon reader review 20/09/2008;
"As a former A level student who used these notes, and achieved an A grade at English A level, I feel this text provides an invaluable resource for those who wish to successfully study Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love". Each chapter of the book is dealt with individually, with the author providing a commentary of points/ rhetorical questions and analysis with which the student can interact. This enables the student to develop their own reading of the text, rather than merely providing them with an "exam worthy" reading. Analysis of the appendices is also included as well as sample essays which demonstrate how the student can communicate their views on the text successfully..."

Enduring Love
(Teach Yourself Advanced Literature Guides)


by Jane Easton
Part of the "Teach Yourself Literature Guides" which use scientific knowledge on how the brain works best to show you how you can work faster, shorten your study time and get a higher grade. This title provides commentary, questions, "Mind Maps" and essay practice on "Enduring Love".
Amazon reader review ;
"This book was so helpful for my exam. I got it a week before taking the exam and achieved a B grade. It covers absolutely everything. I would recommend it to anyone studying A Level English."

Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love"
(Routledge Guides to Literature)


by Peter Childs
This guide to McEwan's haunting novel offers:
* an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Enduring Love
* a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present
* a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on Enduring Love, by Kiernan Ryan, Sean Matthews, Martin Randall, Paul Edwards, Rhiannon Davies and Peter Childs, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section
* cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
* suggestions for further reading.

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Enduring Love Movie Trailer
Trailer for the film version of Enduring Love
Enduring Love Film On Wikipedia
Enduring Love is a 2004 British film directed by Roger Michell with screenwriter Joe Penhall, based on a British novel by Ian McEwan. The story is about two strangers who become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. It stars Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans and Samantha Morton with Bill Nighy, Susan Lynch and Corin Redgrave.
Daniel Craig & Rhys Ifans Discuss The Making Of The Film, "Enduring Love"
Daniel Craig and Rhys Ifans talk about their roles in the film, Enduring Love
Enduring Love Movie Clip
Clip from the film, Enduring Love starring Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton & Bill Nighy
The Question Is..."What Is Enduring Love?"
Enduring Love compilation fan video
The Question Is What Is Enduring Love?
Footage: Enduring Love Song: The Question Is What Is The Question Artist: Scooter Description: Okay, this is very random for me as this is made with an actual film. I saw Enduring Love on filmfour a couple of weeks ago and unfortunatly it was also the same day I first heard this song, so they collided in my head. I had to make this because I think the song matches the pace of the film almost perfectly as does the ambiguity of some of the lyrics, and also just the overall unusalness of both the film and the song are about the same. It's weird there seems to be no end to fan videos on YouTube to every single film I can think of apart from this one. So here's the first! Enjoy! WARNING: Noobish excessive use of flashes and lens flares ^_^ I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE AUDIO OR IMAGES IN THIS VIDEO
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Enduring Love - Film (UK Customers)
Enduring Love movie 2004 - starring Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans...
"Enduring Love builds the taut delirium of a Hitchcock movie. Rhys Ifans, best known for his comic performances, curls his tall frame into a seemingly helpless but creepily aggressive shuffle; the haunted eyes of Daniel Craig and Samantha Morton make the crumbling of their relationship as suspenseful as Jed's stalking. Director Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Persuasion) uses fresh, jarring images and sinuous visual rhythms to craft a tight thriller with unsettling emotional layers. --Bret Fetzer"
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"In ENDURING LOVE, a Joe (Craig) and Claire's (Morton) romantic picnic is disrupted after a hot air balloon drifts into a field, appearing to be in trouble. Inside the balloon is a young boy and the pilot whose leg gets tangles in the anchor rope. After three men, including Joe, rush to secure the basket and try to save the two passengers, it seems they cannot rescue the pilot, who eventually falls to his death and the young boy remains unscathed. When Joe and one of the other men, Jed, go to retrieve the body of the fallen man, Jed feels an instant connection with Joe--one that, as the weeks go by, becomes ever more intense."
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- mitchking mitchking Sep 21, 2009 @ 10:35 am
- This is a excellent sounding story.
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- spirituality spirituality Jul 11, 2009 @ 2:14 pm
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- enduring hate. enduring hate. May 26, 2009 @ 9:04 am
- i too have been forced into studying this novel for english and can assure you that it is only because of these circumstances i painfully brought myself to finish it.
english has now become the bane of my existence and literally dread and avoid at all costs, opening the novel.
don't be fooled by the supposed "brilliant" beginning, it gets much, much worse.
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- Scarlet-Letter Scarlet-Letter May 19, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
- I've been studying this book pretty intensely as I'm in an English student on a current course that requires me to do so, otherwise I would have shut the book half-way through and never looked back.
I advise anyone who is interested in the BOOK, to seriously consider borrowing it or buying a rough copy for less money as I would say that it is a serious waste of time when you reach the middle chapters.
I have not seen the film but I have been told that it ends differently to the book, which - I must say - is a plus no matter what the ending is, as it surely cannot be as bad as the book.
Thank you.
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- Treasures-By-Brenda Treasures-By-Brenda Apr 14, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
- It's nice when a book comes highly recommended...too bad I have a monster pile to read already!
Nice work; blessed.
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