{"id":363,"date":"2003-07-28T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T09:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/07\/enduring_love\/"},"modified":"2003-07-28T09:42:44","modified_gmt":"2003-07-28T09:42:44","slug":"enduring_love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/enduring_love\/","title":{"rendered":"Enduring Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099276585\">Enduring Love<\/a> is the third Ian McEwan novel I&#8217;ve read. The first was the very poor Booker winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099272776\">Amsterdam<\/a>, which was more of a short story than a novel, and hence exceptionally poor value at 6.99 for 178 pages (of largish type as I recall). None of the characters were particularly likeable, and the whole thing rang very hollow.<br \/>\nNext up on the list was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099429799\">Atonement<\/a>, which I read last year, and once again I fear the entry here has been lost. This was an execeptionally good novel, and it was reading that which made me pick up Enduring Love, as many had recommended it.<br \/>\nIt really is an interesting idea. A freak ballooning accident gathers together a disparate group of people as they try to save a child. Tragically one of the strangers dies and an another forms a seeming attachment to our story&#8217;s narrator Joe. As the story unfolds, it becomes unclear who&#8217;s head is messed up. Maybe the conclusion is a little unsatisfactory, but overall a thoroughly entertaining novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enduring Love is the third Ian McEwan novel I&#8217;ve read. The first was the very poor Booker winning Amsterdam, which was more of a short story than a novel, and hence exceptionally poor value at 6.99 for 178 pages (of largish type as I recall). None of the characters were particularly likeable, and the whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}