Enduring Love
by Ian McEwan · first published 1984
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREI cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling from the very first page' Bill Bryson, -Sunday TimesOne 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. 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 of his wife
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…Goliath by Tom Gauld - This Will Never Happen Again by David Cain - Cure by Jo Marchant - If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai: A Conducted Tour of India by Srinath Perur - Deep Work by Cal Newport - Enduring Love by Ian McEwan - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion and a few others that aren't worth recommending; all the above are.
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗I used to think they looked peaceful and fun too, but then I read Ian McEwan's Enduring Love, which begins with a hot-air balloon accident. Although irrational, I now have an abiding fear of hot air balloons and am unlikely to ever go in one. (although, for context, I also have irrational fears…
on “Balloonomania” ↗…- McCarthy, Cormac: Cities of the Plain - McCarthy, Cormac: The Crossing - McCourt, Frank: Angela’s Ashes - McDermott, Alice: Charming Billy - McDevitt, Jack: Ancient Shores - McEwan, Ian: Enduring Love - McEwan, Ian: The Cement Garden - McMurtry, Larry: Dead Man’s Walk - McMurtry, Larry, and Diana Ossana: Zeke and Ned - Miller, Walter M.: A Canticle for Leibowitz - Oates, Joyce Carol: Zombie…
on “Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? (2015)” ↗> film Cement Garden A minor point, but it's a book by Ian McEwan. He also wrote Enduring Love and Atonement (also great films). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cement_Garden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McEwan
on “Letter of Recommendation: Women’s Clothing” ↗