Enduring Love

Ian McEwan 1997

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
love trauma literary fiction philosophical

Our Take

A balloon, a fall, and a love that will not be refused. McEwan builds the dread from the first page with architectural precision, then collapses it on you completely. Parry's obsession is terrifying because McEwan understands that devotion and delusion are not always distinguishable from the outside.

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