ENDURING LOVE

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Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work a collection of short stories First Love Last Rites won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award: The Cement Garden: Enduring Love: Amsterdam which won the 1998 Booker Prize: Atonement: Saturday: On Chesil Beach: Solar: Sweet Tooth: The Children Act: and Nutshell which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into awardwinning films The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.I cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling from the very first page Bill Bryson Sunday Times One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Roses calm organised 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. 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 Roses beloved scientific rationalism threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.Hypnotically readable Sunday TelegraphA virtuoso displayA novel of rich diversityA pageturner with a plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that nightThe 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: I was stretching out my hand and as the cool neck and the black foil touched my palm we heard a mans shout. We turned to look across the field and saw the danger. Next thing I was running towards it. The transformation was absolute: I dont recall dropping the corkscrew or getting to my feet or making a decision or hearing the caution Clarissa called after me. What idiocy to be racing into this story and its labyrinths sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak. There was the shout again and a childs cry enfeebled by the wind that roared in the tall trees along the hedgerows. I ran faster. And there suddenly from different points around the field four other men were converging on the scene running like me.I see us from three hundred feet up through the eyes of the buzzard we had watched earlier soaring circling and dipping in the tumult of currents: five men running silently towards the centre of a hundredacre field. I approached from the southeast with the wind at my back. About two hundred yards to my left two men ran side by side. They were farm labourers who had been repairing the fence along the fields southern

Data Publikacji: 2012-03-01
Wymiary: 198 mm 129 mm 21 mm 283 gr