Enduring Love (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ian McEwan
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: The English midlands
- Principal Characters: Joe Rose, Clarissa Mellon, Jed Parry
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Marriage, Alienation, Mental illness, Obsession, Death or dying, Life and death
- Locales: Midlands, England
In a succession of novels set primarily in the United Kingdom during the last decades of the twentieth century, Ian McEwan has explored the disorder and fragmentation of a society in which his characters are grasping for some sort of value or direction to give their lives a semblance of meaning, or at least make them tolerable. As Michael Adams has astutely observed, all of McEwan’s novels are, to some extent, a “meditation on alienation,” his protagonists depicted in a struggle with political and psychological forces that seem to be expressions of the darker sides of human...
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